SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: White-Collar Crime, Statistical Correlations Of Criminal Behaviour, Property Crime

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Soc 1500 crime and criminal justice (week 8) Categories of crime ------ *** written question on final exam. Offenders: committed by the common person. People who are of lower classes are more likely to be arrested or charged. This is because people who can afford a lawyer cause trouble for the. There are two categories: usually done alone, the convict is easily identifiable, 1. Criminal justice system: bulk of the work deals with conventional crime, it is more likely to be enforced, and police are more equipt to deal with it. Criminal justice system cases area held civilly as the corporations get sued. o. Variables that have a relationship to conventional crime. Age, gender, race, ethnicity and class: who is most likely to be arrested and convicted. Crime is a young man"s game: people who are most likely to break the law are young, 18-24 years old. Not only most likely to commit, also most likely to be victims.