SOCPSY 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Toronto Police Service, Distracted Driving, Homicide
1 Feb 2020
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What else is criminology: criminology is an objective social science. It involves: 1) the development of theory, 2) the formulation of research hypotheses, 3) the collection of information to test research hypotheses, 4) the evaluation of research findings. Fantino"s ball of confusion: thanks to the dedicated work of the men and women of the toronto police service, violent crime in toronto has decreased to its lowest level since the 1960s. However, we should never become complacent about crime. As we all know, crime is always increasing. (chief julian fantino, 2003: if we approach crime logically and scientifically, we see that things are not as bad as they seem, looking at crime from a more objective standpoint. Interpol statistics: takes ucr data and crime from other countries and compiles it into one file so everyone can see and make cross-country comparisons, coroner"s reports, world health organization data, injuries resulting from crime.
