CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Insanity Defense, Substance Abuse, Early Start

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 101
• Professor: Daniel Alati

Document Summary

Under aged survey participants need clear survey questions. Official crime trends in canada: general trends and patterns. Increases in property and violent crime from 1960-1990: decreases in violent and property crime since the early 1990s-2003, homicide rate down. Japan and north america: values hydrogenous vs homogeneous, etc. ) Guns and drugs: firearms are used in. 2% of crimes against the person: presence of gun > increased likelihood of suicide. In canada, 1 in 13 homicides is gang-related, one-third of which are drug-related: urban drug trade recruits juveniles, cheap labour, willing to take risks. Immune from heavy penalties: increased use of weapons and violence, particularly in large u. s. cities. Crime patterns: ecology: time, weather and season, population density, regional crime differences. Crime patterns: criminal careers and chronic offenders: career criminals (people that continue crime throughout their lives, chronic (regular) offenders (offenders who chronically involved in the criminal justice system, continuity of crime, implications of these concepts.