SOC 3710 Lecture 2: 3710 Week 2
27 Nov 2015
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The mass media portrays that youth crime is on the incline and. Alternative sources that it is always on the incline: police stats, court and correctional stats, self report survey, victimization surveys, ethnographic accounts. Crimes that are known to the police: only includes crimes that have been reported to the police. Have crimes been increasing or decreasing according to police reported crime: when looking at the charts that show if crime has decrease/increase it shows that it has decreased. Youth brains down develop until around 22 consequences of committing crime. The severity of youth crime is on the decline in canada (does not. Violent crimes in general are decreasing correspond with mas media: in 2008-09 there was a slight peak in the severity of crimes. Crime severity index handed down by the courts lower weight. Each offence is assigned a weight based on different sentences. More serious crimes have a heavier weight, less serious have a.
