Crime Canada US
Governments, academics, and journalists often express an interest in cross-national crime comparisons, particularlybetween Canada and the United States. This interest stems from the desire to discover causal explanations for crime and to develop more effective criminal justice and social policies (Archer & Gartner 1984; Howard, Newman, Pridemore 2000). Unfortunately, methodological complexities have placed considerable barriers to such comparisons. Differences between national data sources, both for police reported and victimization surveys, have hampered accurate comparisons. Despite these divergent national data collection systems, the tendency has been to compare crime rates between countries with little or no attention to these limitations. Recently, the proliferation of the Internet has led to the growth in this type of misinformation. Recognizing the methodological hurdles, along with the benefits of comparing crime rates between Canada and the United States, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics has undertaken the task of assessing the feasibility of comparing police reported statistics between Canada and the United States. This report, which represents the first step of this study, compares and contrasts t
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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