Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Measuring crime in Canada [electronic resource] : introducing the Crime Severity Index and improvements to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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La mesure de la criminalité au Canada : présentation de l'indice de gravité de la criminalité et des améliorations au Programme de déclaration uniforme de la criminalité.

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1 online resource (45 p.)

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Issued also in French under title: La mesure de la criminalité au Canada : présentation de l'indice de gravité de la criminalité et des améliorations au Programme de déclaration uniforme de la criminalité.

Summary

This report introduces the Crime Severity Index, a new tool for measuring police-reported crime in Canada that for the first time tracks changes in the severity of crime, not just volume. The report also examines how crime is measured in Canada, as well as recent improvements to statistics on crime that are gathered from the police.

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Contents

1. The Crime Severity Index -- 2. Comparing police-reported crime statistics and victimization data -- 3. Improvements to police-related crime data -- 4. Conclusion.

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