CC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gang, Juvenile Delinquency, Moral Panic
Document Summary
From chapter 4 plus additions: the social face of youth crime, special populations. Black youth and crime: the media has focused on a black crime problem since the early 1980s, much of this has been linked to a moral panic. Age and youth crime: youth under 12: commit few offences, youth crime trends: seriousness of offence and likelihood of being charged increases with age of youth offender, majority of offences are property-related. Result: public, politicians, media, and law enforcers believe all youth should be suspect, teens are seen as superpredators, regardless of statistical connections between age and crime. Distribution by sex of young offender cases involving administration of justice and. Age and sex distribution of youth in violent offence court cases, 2003 2004. Conclusions: adults are responsible for more violent crime than youth, girls are less involved in official crime than boys, youth are more likely to be victims of crime than adults.
