PSY328H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Frontal Lobe, Petrofina, Meta-Analysis
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17 years old has the highest rate of crime. lowest (among youth) is amongst 12 year olds skew tells us that rate of crime decreases as age increases, there"s a peak around young adulthood type of youth crime. Most common is property crime, second most common is mischief (vandalization, interference with somebody else"s property), common assault. Mischief is a type of property crime young adults most common types of offences: also property crime and other, such as disturbing the peace (disorderly conduct) Crown counsel (some sort of educational or community service program). there is no charge. absolute discharge: no sentence, a guilty verdict fine compensate for lost or damaged property criticism. Safe streets and communities act imposed harsher punishments for repeat young offenders and violent youth offenders so now youth can be detained for serious offences (any indictable offence, theft over.
