SOC205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Carrington Family, Black Kids, Self-Report Study

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC205
• Professor: Peter Carrington

Document Summary

Black lines mark what we"re interested in; blue = males, red = females. Male crimes > female crimes (almost 3 times; in 2009) Females peak at age of 16; males peak at age of 17. Better if find the prevalence; count how many people committed crime. 8. 5% of boys at 17 or 2. 5% of girls at 17. Girls peak at 15 and boys peak at 16. Data from all apprehensions in the past. Weren"t necessarily recorded, sentenced, but all that has been apprehended in the past. 2% = chronic offenders (responsible for almost half of the crimes) Although the race of offenders is a major topic in american criminology, Little is known about race and crime in canada because data on the race or ethnicity of offenders is either not collected by criminal justice agencies, or is suppressed in reporting to the public.