SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Drug Abuse Resistance Education, Juvenile Delinquency, Shoplifting
27 Nov 2015
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Police contact at a young age: schools, public events, and mass media. Occupy certain spaces, usually in large groups. Go to public parks (for example) because they don"t want to be seen. Don"t want to grasp the attention of people who might call the police on them. Shopping malls thought to be potential shoplifters. Usually adults don"t feel like they should be there, especially since they aren"t being supervised. Historically: cars, mass transit, schools, part-time jobs (felson more opportunities) Cars could expand the distance that a kid can go (have more freedom) and there is a potential for breaking a ton of laws: speeding, drinking and driving. Mass transit once again, get further away from home: increases the chances of being a victim of a crime or a perpetrator. Part-time job get involved with interpersonal theft: tanner interviewed hundreds of kids in canada and looked at the kids with part-time jobs.
