CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victimology, Homicide, General Social Survey
8 Jan 2018
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Researching crime: direct observation in natural settings (ethnographic research, experimental observations, police reports, victimization surveys, self-report surveys (sacco & kennedy, 2011) Direct observation: not necessarily the most efficient way to study crime, criminal events occur with relative infrequency, criminals spend a lot of their time doing the same things and non-criminals. Issues of informed consent (if you tell the subjects what you"re going to do, they may refuse, or alter their behavior). If you encourage subjects to break the law, you may be breaking the law yourself. In canada, police-recorded crime statistics have been collected and published since 1921"" (morden and palys, 2014) In 1962, canada implemented the uniform crime report (ucr: most common date used by criminologists and criminal justice personnel when estimating crime rates. Brennan, 2010: suggests that data collected by the ucr are "erroneous and incomplete"" (morden & palys,
