SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Statutory Rape, Castle Doctrine, Powerviolence
16 Jun 2016
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Small minority (i. e. buddhists, jains, and quakers) does murder include all killing. Canada, no right of self-defense: one use reasonable force or to flee (if you shoot attacker dead manslaughter) Unlike states, lethal force can be used as a first resort against (called the castle doctrine) Murder rate gone down (peaked in mid 1970s, dropped since 1992) Murder not premeditated but impulsive and confrontational. Murders and victims are homosocial: similar age, same social patterns, same sex (men men) Murder tends to be intra-racial: within race or by member of same race. Not interracial: existing between or involving different races. Blacks more likely to be victims & perpetrators factor of. Murderers disproportionately of lower ses: social economic status. Men commit 90% of murders, median age 20 (young men most dangerous) Usa is 3 times higher than canada, (1. 6 can vs. usa 4. 7 per 100 000) Washington d. c. was the murder capital for 39 years six.
