- crime rates are probably inaccurate because a lot goes unreported
- measured by: hospital/insurance records, household surveys, and police compilations
- important to national organizations like Interpol and United Nations
- law enforcement agencies: FBI, Home Office in England & Whales
- statistics covered on: offences, offenders, victims
- decreased crime trends in industrialized countries in Europe, in US, Canada, and Australia
- use Victimisation Surveys to help identify victims unreported
- International Crime Victims Survey done in over 70 countries to help be standard for defining common crims
- other terms: crime science, demography, self report study, victimology
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Crime Rates
I was thinking about doing research on comparing crime rates of the US with other countries.
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If you decide to use this as your topic you also have to consider that in other countries they do not have the same criminal justice system that we do, and many times the statistics given on their crime is not accurate. I couldn't find it online but I know there was a paper written on this because we read it in one of my classes last semester. I will dig through my old information and see if I can find it for you, but if not i'm sure it is online somewhere.
Right now it seems as if "crime rates" is a very broad topic. It would help if you could narrow it down, to say theft or murder between two or three specific countries. If while you are doing your research you are having a problem you could broaden your horizons some.
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