Chapter 3 Links for In-text Interactive Activities

ACTIVITY: Calculating Crime Rates
Samuel Perreault, “Police-Reported Crime Statistics in Canada, 2012”
This article discusses how crime rates are measured and calculated and the factors affecting police-reported crime statistics in Canada. It also reviews different crime rate statistics between 1962 and 2012 across the country.

Statistics Canada, “Section 1: The Crime Severity Index”
This article discusses the Crime Severity Index (CSI) as an alternative to the traditional crime rate measurement. While the traditional approach focuses on crime frequencies, the CSI is more concerned with measuring the seriousness of offenses.