SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Demography Of The United States
15 Feb 2017
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Thursday, november 3, 2016 soc1500- lec#11 social exclusion and crime:youth. The process of being shut out from any of the social, economic, political, or cultural systems that determine the social integration of a person into society (walker and walker 1997:8: often related to citizenship. Social exclusion is a multi-dimensional construct: poverty, gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. Homeless youths" circumstances often lead to crime: homeless youth who feel the most excluded are at the greatest risk for committing a crime. A group of individuals with identi able leadership claiming control over territory and engaging in either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behaviour (miller, 1975: 9) Often depicted as a race problem: black in toronto, asian or south asian in vancouver, aboriginal in prairies. Growth in american youth gangs attributed to: loss of inner-city working class jobs, rise in the illegal drug trade. Paradoxically, many youth are initially attracted to gangs for protection.
