SOC321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Young Offenders Act, Sexual Assault, Juvenile Court
5 May 2015
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Age: the next most important determinant of youth crime trends and patterns. The rate of persons accused of crimes steadily increases from age 12 to 17, the peak age, and then begins to decline for all offence types. Those who are younger are more likely to engage in property-related crimes. Older youth are proportionately more likely to commit administrative offences. Charges not generally considered to be criminal, such as failure to comply with a disposition (sentencing) Generally, peak age is 17, crime decreases after it, for example, because of maturational reform. Administrative offence ex: failing to appear in court, failure to finish community service. -debate over the trend of violent youth crime in the 1990s. Crime severity index (csi): uses weighting system to measure youth offences according to their seriousness; developed by statistics canada in 2009. Seriousness of crime haven"t gone down, but the raw numbers have. Most people who commit crimes are not aboriginals.
