SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Criminal Record, Social Class

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Bill O' Grady

Document Summary

Soc 3710 policing youth i: police contact and decision making. Police surveillance: police surveillance of youth is disproportionately high compared to adults. In the early years of the ycja, nearly 6 in 10 youth were informally processed. Most often verbal warnings and referrals to community programs. Legal factors affecting police decision making: seriousness of the offence and prior arrest records, prior poli(cid:272)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)ta(cid:272)t (cid:894)(cid:862)k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) to the poli(cid:272)e(cid:863)(cid:895, prior convictions (ie. criminal record, previously breashed a probation order, rules of the criminal code. Extralegal factors affecting police decision making: factors affecting criminal or youth justice processing that are outside of the jurisdiction of the law. Extralegal factors: race: minority youth are more likely to be arrested and have a criminal record. Demonstrative or police bias: a suspe(cid:272)t"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour, attitude, a(cid:374)d appeara(cid:374)(cid:272)e ofte(cid:374) deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e that out(cid:272)o(cid:373)e. Police may perceive black and indigenious youth a difficult.