CRIM 101 Lecture : CHAPTER 8 NOTES - THE FAMILY AND THE HOUSEHOLD

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20 Oct 2011

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Simon Fraser University

Department

Criminology

Course

CRIM 101

Professor

Barry Cartwright

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Chapter 8 notes - the family and the household. **home alone: proportion of single person households increased from 20% to over 25% between relationships. 1981-2001 substantially: living alone has become more common for seniors, including those over age of. 85, with fewer living in health care facilities. Transactions: most violent transactions take place in the home, primarily during the evening, or, time when all or almost all of the family members are closed behind doors. **abductions of children: more than two-thirds of all abductions are actually done by parents, distribution of offenders evenly split between fathers and mothers. High income households: s&k say that there is no clear-cut relationship between household income and the risk of household victimization, according to most recent gss, however, households with annual incomes of. ,000 or higher had highest rates of victimization 17% higher than middle income households, and 88% higher than lower income households.

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1. Because many men traditionally have not produced a lot of household commodities

a.	they are more likely to reduce hours of work after a decrease in their wage rate

b. their income effect is likely to be smaller than that of women

c. they can more easily substitute leisure for household production

d.	they are less likely to reduce hours of work after a decrease in their wage rate

2. One of the main changes in the typical family in the United States over the past 30-40 years has been

a. non-marital births have decreased appreciably

b. marriage has declined while cohabitation has risen

c. single-parent families have fallen considerably

d. median age at first marriage has decreased

3. A single mother is currently paying childcare cost of $10 an hour and she works 8 hours a day. The government then decides to provides child care at a constant $80 a day. The effect of this event will be to:

a. cause the mother to work more hours

b. cause the mother to work less hours

c. cannot tell without knowing which effect dominates: the income or substitution effect

d. cause the mother to work the same hours

4. Which statement correctly describes the relationship between Marriage and Poverty?

a. poverty as a whole can be solved by people just having children

b. Children who grow up in a dual parent household are significantly more likely to experience poverty

c. Children who grow up in a dual parent household are significantly less likely to experience poverty

d. poverty as a whole can be solved by people just staying married

5. The real determining "discriminatory" factor in higher education today is

a.	"out of state" status

Which statement is true of direct proportionality?

		If the x variable increases by 25%, then the y variable increases by 50%.
		The graph of a directly proportional relationship is a straight line.
		The graph of a directly proportional relationship may cross the y axis at any value.
		The slope of a directly proportional relationship can never be less than one.

The Bank of New England is a large financial institution serving the New England states as well as New York and New Jersey. The mortgage department of the bank wants to study factors that affect family income testing the following hypotheses. Discuss what data/variables need to be collected to test the following hypotheses. There is no need to analyze the relationships or discuss why the relationships exist. Limit your answers to data and variables.

a. Higher education is correlated with higher family income

b. The higher the value of the home being purchased, the higher the family income

c. The age of the head of the household can be related to family income

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