SOCI 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victimology, Elder Abuse, Shoplifting
19 Jun 2020
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Criminology class 3: nature & extent of crime. Empirical information analysis: uniform crime report (ucr 1. 0, revised uniform crime report (ucr 2. 0, crime severity index. List number of criminal offences occurring in each police service"s jurisdiction: # of criminal offences= raw number, # occurrences cleared by charge= clearance rate, # of persons charged. Aggregate data: total number of crimes reported to police. Updated to reflect changes in laws/society, most cited: characteristics of victim, accused, location, date, time of incident, use and type of weapons used, type of property stolen. Enhance quality of data: ucr only captures crimes reported to police. Measure volume and severity of crimes: assigns seriousness weight to each offence, higher weight= more serious. How much serious violent crime vs. minor property crime (in a jurisdiction) Victim surveys (vs: ask victims about encounters with criminals, to get previous unknown data invisible crime .
