SOC205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Delinquency, Crime In Canada

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC205
• Professor: Peter Carrington

Document Summary

Crime: violation of laws that the police enforce; primarily the criminal code: controlled drugs and substance act, youth criminal justice act. Extra laws than criminal code: provincial statutes: provincial liquor act or provincial highway act. Haven"t committed a crime, you"re not a criminal, but treated like one; sent to court, pay a fine. We don"t really know, because it"s a covert activity. We can estimate how much very roughly! Police, court system, any other agency that is involved with crime: organizational administrative records, social surveys, not the media!!! Newspaper compresses statistics from statistics canada (crime that police are aware of: crime is a covert activity; people try to conceal. Collected by statistics canada (canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs)) Uniform crime reporting (ucr) survey (is actually a census) Software attached to police information system; extracts information from there and sends to stats can. How many young offenders were apprehended by police. Integrated criminal court survey (iccs) (is actually a census)