of crime among Canada’s three largest provinces and 9 largest metropolitan

areas.” This was quoted by Statistics Canada on July 18, 2000, in a

publication of The Daily. Crime can be defined as “…any act or omission

regarded by a sizable segment of a given society as warranting formal

intervention to control, punish and prevent behaviours.”1 However the

diminishing crime rate may not hold to be a true depiction of a national trend

in all provinces. The decreasing crime rate in relation to Canadian society as a

whole may not hold to be accurate for three main explanations; Statistics

Canada’s method of official data collection to reveal the crime rate does not

present a flawless process, there is an evident lack of uniformity amoung

different geographical segments, within Canada, in police reporting and

policies, and Canadian citizens views in relation to reporting and the crime

funnel, examined with unofficial data, prove to be a factor that consequently

influences crime statistics. Canadian society can be defined in relation to this

paper as; all Canadian citizens habituated within Canada holding everything

(U.C.R). U.C.R was established in 1962. U.C.R represents data that is;

may not remember whether they have been victims of crime. The may have

differences in reporting results. These variations were due to variances in the

situation where the victim lies to get attention or overemphasized the extent to

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