SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dangerous Offender, Homicide, Crown Attorney
5 Dec 2016
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Property crimes committed against property, theft, etc: criminal justice system: bulk of the work, police, court, corrections, deals with street crime. Social dimensions of crime variables race, sex, class. Correlate: when we has association with one phenomenon with another, 2. Correlates of crime: phenomena, or variable association, street crime. Variables: social class plays important role in determining servallience, enforcement of law, lower the class the lower you are in terms of social class more likely entered in system. Crime: is a young man"s game, not for no reason. Official crime stats show us that those who break law are most likely young and male. Self-report: show us that young people are more likely to report committing crimes than young females and older adults. Predictor of crime: males dominant as offenders and as victims. most important. Infanticide: only women can be charged with it. Is when a mother kills her child until age of 1 doesn"t happen often.
