LAWS 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: General Social Survey, Domestic Violence, Visible Minority
16 Oct 2017
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Crime rates: the number of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population, calculating violent crime rates, 2012. Dark figure of crime: the difference between how much crime occurs & how much crime is reported to or discovered by the police. The costs of crime: the cost of policing is at least billion/year. The hidden consequences of crime: overzealous policing, concerns about social disorder, legislation (ex. gun control, drug laws, emotional, psychological & physical. Lifestyle: fear in community, lack of investment, avoidance of certain areas, added expenditures for cctv, Locks, technology, private security, etc: abandoned areas, high insurance costs. Laws2301 september 26, 2017: annual cost of the cjs is billion/year, if other costs (outlined above) are included, it balloons to nearly billion/year. Cost of domestic violence: total cost of spousal violence for men & women was . 4 billion.
