SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Visible Minority, Restorative Justice, Nimby
12 Apr 2016
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Ccj: chapter 3 crime, victims and the community. Crime rate is the number of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population: generally spoken in terms of number of incidents for each 100,000 people. Many crimes are not reported by victims or go undetected. They only count only the most serious crimes among multiple offences committed by the same person. Dark figure of crime is the difference between how much crime occurs and how much crime is reported to or discovered by the police. Fewer than 4 in 10 incidents involving sexual assault, robbery, assault, break and enter, theft of motor vehicles and motor vehicle part and vandalism are reported to the police. Self-report surveys ask respondents whether they have committed a criminal offence and victimization surveys ask respondents whether they have been victimized/whether they reported it to the police (why not, if they didn"t)
