PSY328H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Juvenile Delinquency, Truancy, Histogram
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Youth disproportionally represented in crime in canada (stats canada 2014 data) In 2014, approximately 101,000 youth (12-17 years of age) were accused of police-reported. In canada you have to be at least 12 years of age to be charged with an offence and under 17 because under age of majority. Youth are disproportionately engaged in criminal activity: only 7% of canadian population but. Rate of youth accused of crimes (4. 322 per 100,000) was 1. 8 times higher than the rate of adults accused (2,452 per 100,000). Caveat: if you break adults in two categories: Fake adults: (18-24) and real adults (25+) the #fakeadults commit even more crimes than youth. Volume and severity of youth crime has declined except drug crimes and even more so with in fake adult group especially with marijuana which accounts for 80% of drug crimes. Histogram of crime by age group on slides.
