SOC 2760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neonaticide, Prenatal Care, Irreversible Process

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Soc 2760 homicide unit 8 killing. Read woodworth: characteristics of canadian youth perpetrated homicides, heide: encyclopedia of. Bourget: maternal and paternal filicide, juristat: shaken baby, and juristat: pregnancy. Woodworth: characteristics of canadian youth perpetrated homicides: youth-perpetrated homicides represent 0. 5% of all youth perpetrated violent crimes, kelly a(cid:374)d totte(cid:374)"s (cid:894)2002(cid:895) a(cid:396)ti(cid:272)le (cid:272)a(cid:373)e a de(cid:272)ade afte(cid:396) meloff a(cid:374)d sil(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s. Last, the majority of homicides were interracial; white offenders primarily killed white individuals and first nations offenders killed first nation: as social distance increased, the probability of being a victim of multiple perpetrators increased. In addition, canadian youth engaged in more individual-perpetrator homicides: finally 70% of crime-based homicides were committed concurrent to theft, 21% involve sexual motives and 9% involved unidentified crimes. Increases in multiple perpetrator homicides and homicides involving greater social distance appear to be linked: cornell reported that in 1991 almost half (48%) of all youth-perpetrated homicide occurred during a concurrent crime, whereas most recent estimates suggest 2/3.

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