Criminology

Criminology “For the past 8 years from 1999 there has been a 5% decrease in the rate of crime among Canada’s three largest provinces and 9 largest metropolitan areas.” This was quoted by Statistics Canada on July 18, 2000, in a publication of The Daily. Crime can be defined as “…any act or omission regarded by a sizable segment of a given society as warranting formal intervention to control, punish and prevent behaviours.”1 However the diminishing crime rate may not hold to be a true depiction of a national trend in all provinces. The decreasing crime rate in relation to Canadian society as a whole may not hold to be accurate for three main explanations; Statistics Canada’s method of official data collection to reveal the crime rate does not present a flawless process, there is an evident lack of uniformity amoung different geographical segments, within Canada, in police reporting and policies, and Canadian citizens views in relation to reporting and the crime funnel, examined with unofficial data, prove to be a factor that consequently influences crime statistics. Canadian society can be defined in relation to this paper as; all Canadian citizens habituated within Canada holding everything constant. (race, age, gender) Statistics Canada utilizes data measured in a structure known as crime, data, police, rate, official, provinces, different, canada, unofficial, statistics, result, force, control, through, reporting, crimes, canadian, population, errors, criminal, within, victimization, time, system, reported, report, process, must, city, areas, act, society, relation, quote, one, national, larger, information, fails, factors, factor, fact, decreased, daily, citizens, cities, amoung, accurate, women, various