Social deviance is a term that refers to negative forms of behavior such as crimes and qualities of a person that others in society devalue and discredit. Crimes have always been hard to measure however with the assistance of survey methods it has become easier to narrow down the types of crimes, it’s location, helps in distinguish the crimes occurred within a time frame, and it also helps to find the number of victims affected. The three main types of methods which assist criminologist in figuring patterns in society, the police, and the government in making new or reconstructing old laws/policies are the Uniform Crime Report Statistics, Self Report Surveys, and Victimization Surveys. Although these methods are great to measure crime, all
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Some of the benefits of having the UCRS is that it assists in bring decrease in commonly occurring events that are not as severe and gives them a higher importance (Brym et al, 2016, p.172). Other uses of having the UCRS is that it puts real crime data into a consumable format. For example, many people decide to live in a low-crime traffic area so these statistics help families choose and see where the safest parts of the country happen to be. Another possibile benefit is that It allows people to see the historical perspective of crime trends. This then help people understand the types of approaches that were successful and what trends should just be scrapped or revamped, therefore this leads to changes in laws according to its needs while using older techniques that actually worked. Lastly another strength that the UCRS has is that is allows society see observe the changes in crime from previous years, thus every community can then look at the data to see if trends are continuing, despite the crime …show more content…
This type of method allows everyone to asses themselves and posibily improve on mistakes that they have made. Some other strengths that the self-report surveys has is that is allows everyone to see “... that most Canadians have engaged in some type of criminal activity…” (Brym et al, 2016, p.172). This gives assurance that “...committing an act in violation does not automatically result in being officially labelled a criminal” (Brym et al, 2016, p.172), however, not identifying it does not justify. The use of this survey is that is also allows respondents to identify their own criminality during a specific time period, such as the previous year, which they may have thought is not a “big deal or an offense”. Other strengths of this survey is that this types of survey could focuse more towards juveniel crime because youths are more easily surveyed in schools, courts, detention centers, and correctional facilities and are more likely than adults to report their illegal behaviour. If acts are caught early this would prevent in overall crimes for the future. Others uses of the self-report is that majority of persons reports having commited criminal behaviour that could have led to their arrest but got away get caught, therefore all perpetrators have get of face the
Some of the benefits of having the UCRS is that it assists in bring decrease in commonly occurring events that are not as severe and gives them a higher importance (Brym et al, 2016, p.172). Other uses of having the UCRS is that it puts real crime data into a consumable format. For example, many people decide to live in a low-crime traffic area so these statistics help families choose and see where the safest parts of the country happen to be. Another possibile benefit is that It allows people to see the historical perspective of crime trends. This then help people understand the types of approaches that were successful and what trends should just be scrapped or revamped, therefore this leads to changes in laws according to its needs while using older techniques that actually worked. Lastly another strength that the UCRS has is that is allows society see observe the changes in crime from previous years, thus every community can then look at the data to see if trends are continuing, despite the crime …show more content…
This type of method allows everyone to asses themselves and posibily improve on mistakes that they have made. Some other strengths that the self-report surveys has is that is allows everyone to see “... that most Canadians have engaged in some type of criminal activity…” (Brym et al, 2016, p.172). This gives assurance that “...committing an act in violation does not automatically result in being officially labelled a criminal” (Brym et al, 2016, p.172), however, not identifying it does not justify. The use of this survey is that is also allows respondents to identify their own criminality during a specific time period, such as the previous year, which they may have thought is not a “big deal or an offense”. Other strengths of this survey is that this types of survey could focuse more towards juveniel crime because youths are more easily surveyed in schools, courts, detention centers, and correctional facilities and are more likely than adults to report their illegal behaviour. If acts are caught early this would prevent in overall crimes for the future. Others uses of the self-report is that majority of persons reports having commited criminal behaviour that could have led to their arrest but got away get caught, therefore all perpetrators have get of face the