SOCI 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexual Assault, Selection Bias, Social Inequality
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History of crime statistics: thomas malthus (1766 - 1834, andre-michel guerry (1802 - 1866) o. Collected moral statistics on conflict and crime: adolphe quetelet (1796 - 1864, formed historical basis for the statistical school of criminology, which attempts to find correlations between crime rates and other types of demographic data. Sources of crime statistics: uniform crime reporting system (ucr, collecting info on victims as well, does not collect info on race and ethnicity, victimization surveys. Include instances of crimes that don"t go to the police o: some crimes (e. g. , homicides) are almost always officially caught but some other crimes are not, self-report surveys, criminals self-report themselves (????) E. g. , government survey: please tell me if you"ve ever committed a crime. Relationship between social class and crime: e. g. , a lot of deviant behaviour can be hidden if you"re in the upper class, different situations can make stats skewed, being poor might not be the reason for the crime.
