Dark Figure Of Crime

“Crime requires the ability to assess how it varies from place to place and increases or decreases depending on changes to crime control policies and practice” (Morden and Palys, 2015, p. 73). This is solely based on the Criminal Code and the Uniform Crime Report that is conducted annually. Many people state that within the Criminal Code, crime is considered objective while the UCR, the “most common data used by criminologist and personnel when estimating crime rates” (Cartwright, 2017, Lecture 4), is very subjective. As the UCR shows all the crimes reported to the police, it can be slightly inaccurate due to the Dark figure of recording and the Dark figure of crime. The UCR has been consistently decreasing since the early 1990s not until recently,

I believe the police-reported crime statics best represent a Constructionist perspective and a bit of Positivist perspective due to the influence and interactions with others. With the Criminal Code and collecting society’s social values, it is “a reflection of societal consensus about what is and what is not criminal” (Morden and Palys, 2017, p. 76). Although we have the UCR survey with a goal of providing “complete, accurate and standardized to facilitate temporal and spatial comparisons” (Reed, 2008, p.77), the survey still was questioned, “what was really going on.” The Dark figure of Crime still existed which had “always been a problem in measuring crime [accurately]." The belief that society does not categorize and label others rather “understand and define the world on the basis of our socialization and interaction with others.” The idea that “crime and it’s causes and consequences,” cannot be understood by an individual and society until we “accept that the identification, coding, and counting of crime is a human,” and says that “our society and justice system [does] about the [same] amount of crime that occurs.” I believe from society’s values and the interactions with others will influence individuals to decide whether the act is a crime or not. As the police-reported crime

Victimization surveys do help complete some missing information on the crime, however, the drop-in crime from a change in human behaviour and the Internet with cybercrime is hard to measure. Cybercrime in Canada has been reported 62% experienced at least one attempt of