SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Crime Prevention, The Roots, Convenience Store
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Conditions of and risk factors of crime. Social and economic links to crime- look at the root causes of crime. Different programs or institutions part of this programs, ie schools, public housing. Diverse range of programs that are involved but aren"t explicitly saying they are preventing crime. One of the running themes is alienation. Leads to usually violent crime because they do feel they are not apart of the community. The young people are already a marginalized group. Not more than 3 in a convenience store. The ontario govt has no specific strategy for curing this. Whatever they are identifying as a risk factor doesn"t produce violent crime. Just because its correlated doesn"t mean it causes violent crime. Relative deprivation: how worse of do you feel against other people. Exclusion from the minimal conditions of living leads to alienation. Youth see selves as victims of uncaring society. Belief they habe no stake or future.