CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Crime Prevention, Property Crime

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 131
• Professor: Sarah Yercich

Document Summary

Reported yearly, # criminal incidents reported to police divided by population. Crime severity index (more serious crimes, be giving more weight) Dark gure of crime (crime that goes unreported) Severity of police - reported crime (going down) 1990 is a peak and then it starts to decrease. Property crime goes under non-violent of course. Court data ( tells how court works, sentencing, length of how long it takes for it to go thru) Aggregate data (ucr) (get more realistic picture) # number of adults and people charged. Of cer discretion (would have to determine if the crime actually happened) Not everyone who is arrested is guilty. Issues with counting crime (murder or prostitution) Subjectivity ( data can be subject, certain populations may be looked at by the police. Research says that age, religion and social standing can basically get u more chances of getting caught) Changes in technology ( social media, catch and insight criminal activity)