AHSS*2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Uniform Crime Reports, Real Change, Substance Abuse
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Uniform crime reports are collected by the canadian centre for justice. Crime severity index: created to reflect different rates in volume and seriousness of different crimes, assigns weight to different crimes so that large changes in less serious crimes do not unduly affect the crime rate. Reporting practices: will people call the police, sexual assault, property crime and domestic violence. Legal definitions: have the laws changed, prostitution and marijuana rules. Self-report surveys: self-report surveys, interviews with those arrested or in jail, telephoned at home, mailed or online surveys: people report their criminal activities anonymously, usually quite accurate. Self-report surveys: but can have problems with accuracy lying, forgetting, bragging, emphasis is on minor offences, e. g. , drug and alcohol use, are the most deviant the least likely to respond, e. g. , truants. Victim surveys: u. s. since 1966; canada since 1988, mainly through telephone interviews, canadian urban victimization survey (cuvs, general social survey (gss, violence against women survey (vaws)
