SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: General Social Survey, Official Statistics, Iceberg

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Criminologists should focus on two things: measuring crime in society & understand- ing the nature of crime. Primary methods of measuring crime: 1)official statistics. It is the data collected from official agencies. Crime data in canada have been systematically collected on a national basis since. Today, the canadian centre for justice statistics(ccjs) in ottawa is the division at. Statistics canada responsible for gathering and analyzing the reports submitted by police from across the country. Records violent crime (eg homicide, assault), property crime (eg theft, b&e), other crimes (eg impaired driving, disturbing the peace) In order to collect more detailed information on each incident, including data on vic- tims and accused persons, the ucr2 survey was developed. Ucr2 also includes data on victims and accused (eg gender, relationship) Crime data from police departments are submitted monthly on machine-readable forms, normally within 2 weeks after the end of each month"s reporting.