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Crime in Canada
In this chapter, the student should be able to:
- Identify the five major types of crime (crimes against the person, property crimes, crimes of the powerful, organized crime and gangs and, antisocial behavior).
- Describe how crime impacts all of our lives.
- Recognize the need to pay attention to street crimes and crimes of the powerful.
- Identify the three measures used to determine how much crime there is in Canada.
- State the limitations of the three measures of crime.
- Discuss why crime is not always reported.
- State why our knowledge of crime is incomplete at best.