SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: White-Collar Crime, American Kids, Dangerous Offender
11 Dec 2016
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M/c questions: according to william chambliss, a neo-radical criminologist (marxist), middle and upper class criminals are less likely to be apprehended and punished because they are better at hiding their crimes than the lower class offenders (pg. Variables that have a relationship to conventional crime. Correlate: an association b/w one phenomenon and another. Correlation does not equal causation, it just means that there is a relationship b/w 2 variables. Correlates of crime: correlates related to criminal activity. Sociological: looks at age, gender, race, ethnicity, and class (who is most likely to be arrested, convicted, etc. ) Sex has been declared as the most important predictor of crime. Males are more likely to be involved in crime than females. Male crime rates are much higher than female crime rates. Exception is infanticide as only women can be charged with it. Men are more agile and have more strength than women.
