Résumé
"The following study used multivariate statistical techniques to analyze
offence specific crime rates reported by the police in the aggregate
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR1). The objective was to
summarize the large amount of data on offences reported by the police in
1999 to the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada into
generalized patterns of crime. The results show that the statistical analysis
was successful in representing the crime patterns of 600 cities across
Canada by four crime indices for each city. Such information could be used
to pinpoint crime problems for individual cities and would be helpful in
assisting local criminal justice agencies to develop crime control and
prevention strategies for their specific areas."--Page vii.
Contenu
Section1. Introduction -- Section 2. Methodology -- Table 1. Distribution of cities in this study -- Table 2. Offence categories -- Section 3. Components of crime -- Table 3. Factor loadings of the four crime components -- Section 4. Crime patterns of individual cities -- Section 5. Crime profiles for different regions -- Table 4. Results of discriminant analysis of four geographical regions -- Table 5. Average factor scores of the four geographical regions -- Section 6. Crime profiles for different city sizes -- Table 6. Results of discriminant analysis of four city size classes -- Table 7. Average factor scores of the four city size classes -- Section 7. Summary and policy implications -- Table 8. Summary of crimes by the two classification schemes --
Appendix 1. An illustration on the difficulty of describing a crime
pattern --
Appendix 2. Factor scores for four crime components of 600
cities --
Appendix 3. Factor score percentiles for four crime components
of 600 cities --
Appendix 4. Reclassified cities based on the regional classification
scheme --
Appendix 5. Reclassified cities based on the city size classification
scheme --
Appendix 6. Mean crime rates by city size (per 100,000
population).