CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White-Collar Crime, Motor Vehicle Theft, Tax Evasion
Document Summary
Crime rates: the number of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population, calculating violent crime rates (2012) =1190 violent crimes per 100000 people: northwest territories has the worst crime rate (51922 per 100000, ontario has the best crime rate (4764 per 100000, alberta has most severe violent crimes and most non violent . Dark figure of crime: the difference between how much crime occurs and how much crime is reported to or discovered by the police. Tax evasion, stock market manipulation: cost of domestic violence, criminal and civil justice systems, pain, suffering and loss of life, health care, third party, in total, . 4 billion. Failure of police to provide information to crime victims. Language and access difficulties for immigrant or visible minority women. Pressure from family who fear the police if from some countries (fear of deportation: compensation, criminal injury compensation. Financial remuneration paid to crime victims: restitution.
