CRI205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, Rexdale, Lawrence Heights
1 Dec 2017
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Week two lecture notes september 18 2017-09-18: measuring crime and criminal. Main points covered in the text: example of a survey covered by wortley, differnet styles, measurements, qualitative, quantitative, ethnography, what we know and how we know it. How to get information about crime and justice: cnn, twitter, you wouldn"t always hear alternative sources, police press releases, statscan, police twitter. Most criminal justice info drawn from news media, friends relations, etc. Not all of us carry frequency relations about who is involved in crime. What do we know about crime, and how: mesurement strategies. Qualitative vs quantitative approaches: offickal data, unofficial data, ethnography and field observations, content analysis. Calculation of crime rate: divide crime number by population, multiplied by 100, 000. 2015 canadian homicide rates: nwt has the highest, at 11. 34. Most dangerous cities in the counrty as of 2015: regina, calgary, winnipeg, nwt crime generally gets higher on the #westside, toronto is comparatively safe.
