"For the past 8 years from 1999 there has been a 5% decrease in the rate 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 ...

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