SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2 (pg. 32-62): Deeper Understanding, Youth Criminal Justice Act, General Social Survey

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Empirical reality = refers to the systematic collection of observable data . Criminology must explain & understand the nature of crime using the most reliable & Rely on reports on crime by police (falls under objective-legislature) Canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs) responsible for gathering & analyzing reports submitted by police. Ucr data are crime known by the police to have taken place (violent crime, property crime & criminal code) Ucr2 survey > updated to include victims and accused information. Violent offences take procedures over non-violent offences. Number of police reported crimes x 100,000 / population = crime rate. Ex 33,476,688 canada 598 homicide = 1. 78 per 100,00 population. Though crime is different in other places, possible to compare homicide rates between nations. Most crime comes to the attention of police reporting in the first instance by the public (much crime not reported by victim out of fear/public lack of knowledge/public.