CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: General Social Survey, Umber, Baby Boomers

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

Statistics need to be interpreted to have meaning. Stats make up social realities (ex: suicide rate and public opinion) Change the rules of measurement = change realities (change the boundaries of the categories, etc. and how they are interpreted = different statistics) Stats are at the core of debates and decisions (trends) Phenomenon over the last 40-50 years where a wide array of categories and counting methods in criminal stats have been developed to count everything. Compared to 50 years ago we have a ton of new numbers ad stats. What police do every day, is gather knowledge and stats. 4 aspects of data explosion: unreported/unrecorded circumstances, circumstances of offences, hidden offenders/offences (ex: drinking and driving/domestic abuse = police now more involved than 50 yrs. ago, victim perspectives and public views. Canadian center for justice stats (ccjs) is the unit within stats canada responsible for national data on crime, court and corrections. (juristat and crime reports ucr)