SOCI 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Juvenile Delinquency, Differential Association, Control Theory
Document Summary
If involved in juvenile delinquency: decrease involvement and attachment: committed crime: those commitment become less and less valuable to them: invested very limited resources in alt forms of living; more likely to continue in adulthood, continuity. Distribution of pop rate for in accused of crime (general pop rate) Overall pattern, rate goes up after 10, goes up till 19, then goes down over the life course. For the pop of those of 18 yo in 2014: peak: highest pop % that found over the life course: 6% accused of crime. Selected offences which peak during youth and decline rapidly with age, 2014. Criminal harassment, fraud, common assault, disturbing the peace. Depends on the offence you are looking at: the pop rate. Have to think bout life-course: how these offenses are distributed across time. Specific offence: that makes it peak at certain time then decline. Almost entirely male issue : not even crime in general: male crime in particular.
