CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: General Social Survey

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Lara Karaian

Document Summary

Crime statistics do not represent crime as if it is an objective fact that exists outside in the world. Statistic do not re ect the phenomenon of crime, they also produce the phenomenon. There are three dominant ways to count crime: of cial police reported surveys, victimization people that have been affected, self-report people being asked if they commit crime. Police have to ll in a survey, which re ects all of the crimes that are reported to them, or the ones that are known by the police to have happened. They submit this survey to a wing (ccjs canadian centre for justice statistics) of statistics canada. This wing can tell us what the crime rate is in the country. We want to compare crime over location, jurisdiction, and time: aggregate survey ucr1. 0 collects summary data for 100 separate criminal offences. Information that has been substantiated by the police.