Note
Issued also in French under the title: Contacts antérieurs avec la police et pouvoir discrétionnaire de la police à l'égard des jeunes arrêtés.
This report is based on analysis of data from a non-representative subset of police forces reporting to the incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR2) from 1995 to 2001. Results were obtained by linking records from 1995 to 2001 pertaining to the same individual. This is the first time research has been done using UCR2 records that are linked longitudinally.
Summary
This multivariate statistical analysis, which captures the number of prior police contacts of young people apprehended by the police, uses longitudinally linked records from the Incident-Based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey for 1995 to 2001.
Contents
1. Background – 2. Rationale – 3. Methodology – 3.1. Population – 3.2. Description of variables – 3.3. Construction of the prior contacts variable – 3.4. Methods – 4. Findings – 4.1. Seriousness of the alleged crime – 4.2. Prior contacts with the police – 4.3. Presence of a weapon – 4.4. Injury to a victim – 4.5. The relationship between the victim and the apprehended youth – 4.6. Group crime – 4.7. Age of the youth – 4.8. Sex of the youth – 4.9. The youth’s aboriginal status – 4.10. Summary.