CRM/LAW C108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Fact, Social Environment, Cohort Study

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C108
• Professor: Naomi Sugie

Document Summary

Older people get arrested less than younger people. Japan and south korea massive growth in people committing crime who are older than 65. Rate of offending: male/female: males have much higher rate of offending, peak during late teens to twenties. Age-crime distribution: social fact (consistently observed to be a fact, but not really a fact in and of itself) Hirschi and gottfredson: a general theory of crime. Low self-control as a concept that distinguishes people more or less prone to criminal and deviant behavior. Low self control + environment more crime. Low self control as a concept that distinguishes people more or less prone to criminal and deviant behavior. It is a stable, individual- level characteristic, developed in childhood. Lower self control = higher rates according the shape. Higher self control = lower rates according the shape. As we get older, we physically age out of crime.