SOC209H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Avast Software, Domestic Violence, Visible Minority
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Chapter 3 crime, victims, and the community. Crime rate: the number of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population. Dark figure of crime: the difference between how much crime occurs and how much crime is reported to or discovered by the police. The rate of reporting to police has declined in recent years. The likelihood of victims calling the police is not related to the seriousness of the offence. Reporting practices vary across different regions in the country. There are age and gender differences in reporting by crime victims. Crime is underreported in many aboriginal communities. Crime victims know that, for many types of crimes, there is little the police can do. The police-reported crime rate has declined and is at its lowest level since 1972. The crime severity index, which includes the volume and seriousness of police-reported crime, has declined over the past decade.
