CRM 2303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Visible Minority, Diplomatic Immunity, The Offence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2303
• Professor: Holly Johnson

Document Summary

Any information contained in hard copy records or documents. Written or taped records of speeches, photos, diaries, letters, maps, etc. Statistics produced by govt and public agencies (marriage, divorce, birth, abortion; crime statistics) Mining existing statistical sources to answer new questions. Limitations: limited to available variables, reliability affected by changes in data collection procedures or definitions, validity definition of a concept doesn"t match, use of proxy indicators, errors in data collection, topic knowledge. Advisory committee: representatives of the canadian association of chiefs of police. Every statistic is shaped by the process which operationally defines it, the procedures which capture it, and the organization which interprets it. Created by humans as a function of social and cultural processes. They enter a convenience store, rob the owner and three customers, shoot and kill a police officer who attempts to apprehend them, knock cans and bottles off the shelves, and set the store on fire as they leave.