CRIM 131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nimby, Official Statistics, Doxing
6 Dec 2016
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Crime rate: the number of incidents known to police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population. Dark figure of crime: difference between how much crime occurs and how much crime is reported to or discovered by the police. Revictimization: the negative impact on victims of crime caused by the decisions and actions of criminal justice personnel. The rates of certain categories of crime may not be declining. The method by which the federal government compiles crimes includes : Counting only the most serious crimes among multiple offences committed by the same person. Reporting the rates rather than the volume of crime. Dealing with variation in police reporting practices. The rate of reporting crime to the police has declined by half. Reporting practices vary across the different regions of the country. Crime is under-reported in many aboriginal communities. Official statistics on crime indicate the following: Police-reported crime has been declined and has been the lowest since.
