SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Homicide
26 Feb 2016
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Empirical reality: reality that can be deduced from repeatable observations of the senses. Uniform crime reporting (ucr) system: relies on crime reports from police. British home office releases crime statistics in uk. Canadian centre for justice statistics analyses police reports in canada. Ucr data: crimes known by police to have taken place. Ucr2 survey: collects more detailed information on incidents; data on victims and accused. Crime rate: no. of police-reported crimes x 100,000 / population = crime rate. Some crimes are not reported due to fear, secrecy, severity and intimacy. Police-reported crime severity index (ptcsi): tracks changes in severity of police-reported crime. Questionnaires that seek anonymous reports from respondents about offences they have committed. Seek information about gender, age and other characteristics. Sampling: selecting people from a population to survey, usually randomly. Asks why victims did not report a particular crime. Telescoping: placing certain events further back than they actually happened.
