CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Uniform Crime Reports, Domestic Violence
2 Feb 2017
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How many arrests, how many people charged or convicted: can be used in different ways for different purposes. Combining data: over-generalizing: for combining data there needs to be a standardized way so we get the correct results and be able to use it. There is no evidence to support these allegations. Might fea(cid:396) (cid:396)etaliatio(cid:374), feel like it is(cid:374)"t (cid:449)o(cid:396)th the ti(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d effo(cid:396)t to (cid:396)epo(cid:396)t the crime, afraid of stigma attached to being a victim, if you were a part of or involved in the criminal act. Might not see the crime as a crime (eg. spousal abuse) No trust in the criminal justice system. Detected crime: only 5% of crimes are detected by police. Reported crime: most crime is reported. Canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs): a division of statistics canada: official governmental collection of data. If there are multiple incidents they get counted as one item and the one that gets counted is the most serious act.
