PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Uniform Crime Reports, Winnowing

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3402
• Professor: Craig Bennell

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5 out of 7 questions, i choose 5. Prevalence crates: refers to the number of offenders in a given area over a given time period divided by the population of people in that area in that time period (number of criminals/ population) 900 criminals divided by 5000 people in the community- 0. 18: 90 offenders/10,000 population= 0. 009 offenders per population, always be less than 1 because the denominator will always be larger than the numerator. Incidence rates: refers to the number of offenders in specific area within a time period divided by the number of offenders, 300 offences/ 60 offenders, greater than 1, numerator will be larger than the denominator, 180/90= 2. Official stats: primarily crimes recorded by the police or any cjs agency, ex: fbi"s uniform crime reports, can be collected in other ways: Clear up rates: closed case, police resolved that case in a way.