SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Official Records Of The American Civil War, Department Of Justice And Correctional Services, Homicide

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

Funded by statistics canada, dept. of justice and federal solicitor general of canada. Police stats: uniform crime report (ucr-1962 & ucr2-1990), crime severity. Judicial stats: canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs) - juristat (e. g adult. Correctional stats: csc, dept. of justice (e. g. adult correctional services. The law is the law according to the criminal code of canada. The way crime is measured officially is an example of an objectivist-legalistic perspective. Observational account - go into the environment (if they want to learn about homelessness, they go into neighbourhoods with high percentages of homeless people) Number of police - reported crimes x 100,000 / population. 651 victims of homicide in canada, 15 fewer than 17 2017 - the homicide rate has dropped since 2017. Csi was 2% higher than in 2017, marking the 4th consecutive increase after 11 years of declines. The rise in canada"s csi in 2018 was the result of increases.