CC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Toronto Police Service, Final Girl, Homicide

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11 Oct 2020
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Differentially affected: girls are less negatively impacted by delinquent peers: pathway to serious offending. Early risk factor: parental risk, childhood personality disorder, extreme childhood temperament, childhood maltreatment, adolescent onset. Later risk factors: school performance, delinquent peers, aggressive behaviour, substance abuse, residential instability: girls and gangs. Girls become involved in gangs to escape controlling or abusive families/parents . Gangs provide a source of support and social outlet. Girls behaving outside stereotypical fashion perceived to be acting like boys rather than as girls who don"t prioritize shopping and domesticity: crime prevention - 3 levels. Primary: prevention is aimed at not allowing problems to start secondary: stopping current problems from continuing. Tertiary: controlling future problems: role of risk. Risk assessment tools are objective measures applied in subjective ways, leading some to question effectiveness. Resiliency - refers to the impact of protective factors that appear to buffer some young persons from the impact of risk factors.

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