CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 47: White-Collar Crime, Observational Error, Social Control
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Week 7 measuring crime and victims (14 questions) Homicide, robbery: criminal justice system, deals with street crime, starting with police, police spend majority of time by dealing with street crime. Police (first lines: proactive police detect infraction by themselves through their own initiative, reactive police are reacting to calls made to them by the public, ex. Strength of ucr: compare across time, ex. Comparing cities: consistent, collect them the same every year. Reported - true number of crime will never be known because some goes unreported: 68% of break and enters are reported. Actual some reported crimes weren"t actually committed. Charged, prosecuted, convicted, sentenced not everyone arrested goes through all these stages. Correlates of crime variables associated with crime. Sociological age, sex, race/ethnicity and social class. Crime is s young man"s game : young people are more likely to be involved in crime, as victims or criminals, starts in adolescence mid 20s.
