SOC101Y1 Lecture : Lecture Note jan 12
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January 12, 2010: deviance and control: sex offenders encompasses a wide range of individuals who engage in very different activities. It can involve sexual assaults, indecent liberties with a child, incest with a child, child molesting, (all of these things are encompassed with the rubric) In canada, in 1983, they enacted a series of things which included rape in the series of assault. A husband can be charged with raping his wife, they also did this moving of rape into this range of sexual assault in the u. s. The reason they did this was to increase reporting and the ease of prosecution. Sexual inference is that sexual touching of the child under the age of fourteen. They found that among these cases 2/3 of the victims were female, in 98% of the cases the perpetrator was a male. People you know and care about you should be concerned about with.
