CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: School Violence, Victimless Crime, Uniform Crime Reports

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Links between de nition and measurement: activities that are not de ned as crimes will not be measured, the broader the de nition, the great the amount of crime, the narrower the de nition, the smaller amount of crime. Features: most commonly and widely reported crime statistic, compiled by canadian centre for justice statistics based on monthly reports from police forces across canada. Ucr measures in volume rather than severity: each type of crime is assigned an individual speci c weight. which is the product of the incarceration rate multiplied the average length of prison sentence. 1. phone-administrated questionnaires seeking info on victimization experiences of individuals over speci c time period. Limitations: over-reporting, for example; wallets reported being stolen, under-reporting, fear, embarrassment and forgetting, excludes victimless crimes gambling, drugs, prostitution, fraud (many people are not aware that they are a victim of fraud), murder.