CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Uniform Crime Reports, Victimology, Motor Vehicle Theft

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

Document Summary

Data explosion: the rapid development of electronic data storage in the last quarter of the 20th century has fuelled what might be called a data explosion in almost every area of public and private life. This is certainly true of crime and justice, most obviously in policing where the collection and use of information has always been core business. Canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs) which is the unit within statistics canada responsible for national data on crime courts and corrections. Uniform crime report incident based expressed as rates /100000. Crime severity index 2009 weight= incarceration rate x duration sentence 2006 as base year. Collects summary data for nearly 100 separate criminal offences and has been in place since 1962. More then 1200 separate police detachments responding to survey, comprising 204 different police forces. Ucr is first and foremost a record of police activity may tell us more about police activity than crime.