SOC321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Young Offender, Juvenile Delinquency, Defense Of Infancy
4 May 2015
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To better understand, explain, and predict youth crime, must draw from a variety of sources of measurement. -official accounts of social control (e. g. , police courts, corrections) Dark figure of crime: incidences of crime/delinquency undetected or unreported by the police. Youth at risk: young people at risk of offending or being victimized. England & wales; south africa & switzerland : 10 years. Usa: varies by state lowest is 6 years in n/carolina. Iran: 9 years for girls; 15 for boys. Any macr below 12 years is considered unacceptable by the un committee on the. A child is considered doli incapax below the established threshold. Being below the threshold is a form of defence the defence of infancy. The traditional focus of criminologists has been on the legal rather than on the psycho- logical or sociological definitions of youth crime. The legal definition of youth crime focuses primarily on predatory and aggressive behaviour that is deemed punishable by law.
