“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 …showed first 75 words of 2779 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2779 total…role within society to deter those from crime and maintain control, but, will always by social factors and judicial discretion’s amoung sentencing be opposing an uncontrollable force. Overall, we can justify the fear of crime by Canadians in remarking that, not until, and probably never, has crime proven without shortcomings to have decreased amoung all geographic locations, will we be satisfied to truly believe that Canadian society is in fact becoming a safer environment