CC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Official Statistics, Property Crime, Violent Cases
Document Summary
These agencies produce reports about certain aspects of youth crime: official statistics are social constructions of the youth crime problem. How do police decide if a crime is founded: court statistics, court statistics are kept by individual courts and yield smaller numbers than do police stations. Agree on personal characteristics of serious crime and criminals. Self-report depends on honesty, accuracy, and integrity of criminals. Overview: males are more involved than females, similar offences minor theft, minor assault, administrative offences, boys tend to be more violent. Youth homicide victims: youth homicide is rare and when it occurs the victim is usually parents, mischief and drugs family, and acquaintances, murder of a stranger is extremely rare. Profiling youth crime: administrative offences: include such cases as failing to appear in court of failing to comply with bail conditions, can result in custody, make up almost a quarter of youth court cases.