CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Toronto Star, Racialization, Fatalism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Adina Ilea

Document Summary

Correlates of crime: variables that are connected with crime, a correlate is a phenomenon that accompanies another phenomenon and is related in some way to it (hartnagel, 2012) Six sociodemographic variables of offenders that correlate with crime: age, gender, ethno-racial background, drug misuse, socioeconomic status, spatial location (place) Intensifies in adolescence and young adulthood and declines thereafter (most of this crime is nonviolent: disproportionate number of homicides committed by young people, peak ages of criminal offending: 17 to 19. In addition to what you learned from the textbook, reflect on your own life experiences when answering this question. Why do young people commit more crimes: maturational reform: people are less likely to commit crime as they grow, adolescence is a period of transition marked by ambiguity. Not fully committed to conventional values: adults have greater incentives to conform. Gender as a correlate of crime (2: males are overrepresented among offenders, females are less likely to be charged with criminal offences.