CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Insurance Fraud, Social Capital, General Social Survey
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Report-sensitive crimes crimes are sensitive to victims reporting them- if sexual assault is not reported, then it is unlikely that police will know about it. Policing-sensitive crimes crimes sensitive to law enforcement- drug crime is proactively investigated by police; otherwise, it would not be detected. Definition-sensitive crimes crimes sensitive to legislative activity gambling has seen a loosening of criminal sanctions around gambling. Media-sensitive crimes crimes sensitive to media attention youth crime, when covered in the media, increases public concern, which increases reports to police, which makes the news. Uniform crime report (ucr) an aggregate census based on reports from police, which is the basis for criminological research, which started in 1962; each month, participating police agencies report to the ccjs. In 1984, the ucr2 collects even more information about the crime: accused and victim characteristics. Crime severity index created to reflect different rates in volume and seriousness of different crimes.
