SOCC30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Making Money, Juvenile Delinquency
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More kids stayed in school than on the street. The development of self-report instruments to investigate crime and delinquency. Why is this neglect important: high school and street youth populations are likely to be very different, and it is very important to compare them in terms of their experiences with crime. Additional notes: in contrast to these earlier stages, more kids staying in school and encouraged not to drop out. In studying youth populations and their involvement in juvenile delinquency, school will be the place most kids are going to go. 1960s, sociologists of crime were looking around for other ways of collecting data around crime. They already had data from ethnographies, police statistics but the criminologists of the day are unaware of some of the limitations of police statistics. They were looking around for a new way of collecting information about crime and delinquency. These self-report studies have usually been used with school populations.
