CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Official Statistics, General Social Survey, Sexual Assault

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

Document Summary

Statistics and governance: centrality of statistics in contemporary society ! Approaching the study of statistics: statistics are not objective, statistics produce or "make up" social realities. Statistical organizations effectively produce such things as the suicide rate, and public opinion which do not exist otherwise: statistics only have meanings when they are interpreted, statistics and governance, pipe is representation is part of aesthetics! Ericson and haggerty 1997): systematically gathered (and mainly quantitative) data, signi cant advances in the analytical tools! Signi cant developments of the "data explosion":: 1. Speci city and sub-classi cation: 4. hidden types of crime. Saturday, september 27, 2014: canadian centre for justice statistics, which is the unit within statistics canada or national data on crime, courts and corrections ! Police services are the respondents: there are more than 1,200 separate police detachments responding to the survey, comprising 204 different police forces, ucr is rst and foremost a record of police activity !