CRMN 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Technological Change, Real Crime, Masculinity
19 Oct 2018
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Crime rates, trends and perceptions & the context of policing. 2014 - under 1. 8 million criminal code incidents reported to police. Volume of crime decreased 3% v. 2013. 8 offenses made up 81% of all crime. Crime severity index v. police reported crime rate: Crime rate: high volume, less serious offenses. Measure severity - weights derived from sentences handed down. Leenaars and lester (2004): proportion of population 15-24 was most significant predictor of homicide. Shifts in inflation -associated with shifts in financially motivated crime. Statistics canada/canadian association of chiefs of police. 1961-1988: police depts. forwarded information to statistics canada. First 27 years - ucr- reported on basis of aggregated statistics. New system introduced 1988 - fully operation in 1992. Incident based ucr survey: also known as ucr2. Information on victims: age, sex, level of injury, drug/alcohol use, victim accused relationship, type of weapon causing injury.
