CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Young Offenders, First Nations
11 May 2016
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Number of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population. Number of criminal incidents reported to police/population = rate of crime [in terms of # of incidents for each. Collected by the police: influenced by reporting practices. Does not include the types and severity of the crimes committed. Higher rate for higher the severity of crime. Difference between how much crime occurs and how much crime is reported to or discovered by the police. There are crimes that the police have no knowledge about. Cannot count the crimes that are under the radar of the police statistics. The actual crime rate is higher than the official rate provided by the police. Majority of crimes are never reported to the police. The likelihood of victims calling the police is not related to the seriousness of the offence. Crime is underreported in many aboriginal communities. Police-reported youth crime has declined [15-24 years olds]
