Soci 304 1nd Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Last Lecture I. Defining crimeOutline of Current Lecture II. Donald Black: self – help theory III. Uniform Crime statisticsIV. Major unit of analysisV. Uniform Crime dataVI. Numbers vs. RatesCurrent LectureVictimization data: Ask people if they have been a victim of a crime.Qualitative data: people study how crime works, how we understand crime.Donald Black: crime is a form is a form of self help.- The idea that people use self help to protect themselves. - Adolescence are most likely to use this because they have fewer legal options so they are more likely to turn to self help. - People with similar social status will resolve their grievances through legal options Official data: uniform crime report data. Gathering reports from police all over the country. Homicide, robbery, rape, motor vehicle and other part one offenses- Bureau of Justice stats ( part 1 offenses): Information of hate crime, violent and corrections- Federal Bureau of Invest FBI: crimes over time Part 2 offensesPolice data (Uniform Crime stats):- Collected by the FBI- Crimes that make it to the level of the police report are also recorded by the FBI.- Gives us a way to track crime over regions. (South vs. North) Also tracks crime over time. - Crimes that hit level of police department are tracked; give us a way to track crimes over timeMajor unit of analysis: These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- Part 1 crime or index crime- serious and frequent crime in society. Includes Homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, Larceny theft, vehicle theft, and arsono Violent crime of part 1 crimes: homicide, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.o Aggravated assault: is the attack of one person upon another to inflict injury used by a weapon. - Part 2 crimes- fraud, robbery, conflict type of crimes. Recorded also by the FBI since 1830. o Notice that simple assaults are excluded because they are part of part two crime. They are categorized by the severity. Simple assault doesn’t involve a serious weapon or injury. o Property crime: burglary is involved use of force. Motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny theft Uniform crime data : - Tell us the age, gender of the person who has been arrested.- Helps to get a trend of crimes- A lot of crime that goes in society does not get reported. One of the biggest problems of uniform crime data: - It underestimates actual crime, emphasizes index crime, data may be better indicated of police behavior than the offender behavior.- Crimes known to police are at the tip of the iceberg. - It’s not a good sources to see white collar crime.- We should turn to other ways to measure crime. - Fluctuation in number of crimes may be due to changes in reporting or policing practices, not necessarily due to more or less crime in the community.o EX: women assaults are reported more but there have been women assaults. Number’s vs. Rates: the rate is the preferred way.- Calculated crime rate: # of reported crime/ population X 100,000= number per 100,000.- Getting the raw number of crimes over the population in a given location.- Gives us number of crimes per 100,000 in the population. It is powerful stat because its lets us make comparison over years and comparisons