SOC227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Homicide, White-Collar Crime, Structural Inequality
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Correlation is not the same a causation. The correlates in this class does not mean they caused the crime. The older u get the less you crime lol. Relationship diminish as you age out of crime. 12-24, tend to commit a disproportionate amount of homicide. White collar crime: people are in position of power when they"re older. Women tend to be under represented: harmed and harming women. Women who have history of early abuse, motivated by anger, heavy intoxication, history of substance abuse. Harmed and harming women: battered women. Women and children youth population, women who react violently in the context of violent abuse (battered women syndrome: street women. Women who engage in crime for survival mechanism, self defense: drug-connected women. Women who usually engage because of their family and intimate relationship, necessity of committing crime because of their participation in drug sphere. Women tend not to be involved in white collar scam.