CRM 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Public Knowledge, Resource Allocation, Victimology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3306
• Professor: Wayne Hanniman

Document Summary

Reasons for people not reporting : too trivial or no damaging effects, the police can"t do anything about it, inappropriate for the police to intervene (ex: domestic violence, fear of the police, inconvenient, police would not be interested. Common theme is a distrust in the police. Most crimes aren"t reported estimated about 2/3. More serious the crime, the more likely to report it: if there is an injury, involves a weapon or theft over , more than 50% of people will report them, 5% of sexual assaults are reported. There are reporting differences between the provinces. 12% of people sexually assaulted don"t want shame or dishonour to family: includes incest or abuse so they don"t want others to know about that. 38% felt that the offender wouldn"t be punished properly. 17% have felt an unsatisfactory response from the police: police should be including this into their restructuring of the departments. Reasons for not reporting household victimization- james dignan.