Why did we pass this into the .get parameter

Android Programming (3rd Edition) 11. Using ViewPager
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in section 11.2 the book says we are getting our data set from CrimeLab –
the List of crimes and it uses the following code: mCrimes = CrimeLab.get(this).getCrimes();

now i understand that .getcrimes is a method we defined in CrimeLab but what i don’t understand is the .get section, why did we pass “this” into .get(), doesn’t “this” stand for the constructor that we are in, I’m confused please help

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“this” here represents the Activity/Context object where you calls the static CrimeLab method.
We will use this Activity/Context object to get the application context in Chapter 14 for further usage.