CRJU 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The New Jim Crow, Concentrated Poverty, Georg Simmel
3 Oct 2016
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Causation: change in one results in change in the other: one leads to the other. *** causation= correlation but correlation does not equal causation. How are the leading factors related to crime? (age, gender, class, race) Youth disproportionate (18-25 counts for 42% of arrest) (90% of youth have engaged in illegal activity) (young man"s game) Age-crime curve (falls off around mid-20s) (don"t have a job, underdeveloped, don"t have best coping methods, lots of desires, more freedoms to engage, don"t have a family yet) (drops off when you mature, less influenced by peers, responsivities grow) Aging out: more likely to consider consequences, cost outweigh benefits. Males commit more crime and different types of crime than females. Females are less likely to be involved in the criminal justice system (only make up 26% of arrests) Biological (these biological ideas exist because of the cultural ideas: classic theorists: lombroso, marx, durkheim, weber, simmel, evidence: hormones, physical build.
