CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victims Family, Milk Bottle, Guard Dog
9 Dec 2017
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Researching crime direct observation in natural settings (ethnographic research) experimental observations police reports victimization surveys self-report surveys. Not necessarily the most efficient way to study crime. Criminal behaviour tends to be secretive in nature. Criminals go out of their way to avoid observation or detection. However, if conducted successfully, ethnographic researchers may learn in-depth information about criminal subcultures that are not usually amenable to investigation. Issues of informed consent ; the subjects may refuse or alter behaviour if they know what you"re going to do. If you encourage subjects to break the law, you may be breaking the law yourself. The millgram experiment; the subject needs to give someone a shock when he gets an answer wrong. In canada, police-recorded crime statistics have been collected and published since 1921. ". In 1962, canada implemented the uniform crime report (ucr) Most common data used by criminologist and criminal justice personnel when estimating crime rates.
