CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Minority Group, Public Intoxication, Domestic Violence
22 Sep 2016
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Crimes as social events , involving offenders, victims, bystanders, and witnesses, the police, and other participants in the criminal justice system. Interwoven with routine activities theory, lifestyle exposure theory, and environmental crim. All focus on : routine activities , motivated offenders , criminal opportunities , suitable targets , guardianship , situational crime prevention . Referred to as events (or episodes) because they have a beginning and an end . Most offenders are young males (more that 75% in some offence categories: aged 15-24, lower socioeconomic status, minority group (e. g. , african american and aboriginal, unemployed / temporarily unemployed. 12-17 age group represented only 8% of population, while accounting for ~33% of all crime. Excuse-based explanation (denial of responsibility: offender may agree the act was wrong, but say that they are not responsible. Offender accepts responsibility, but claims the act was justified.
