SOC225 Lecture 10: lecture 10 social control theory.docx

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC225
• Professor: Temitope Oriola

Document Summary

The majority of these child and youth victims (n=459 or 89%) were killed by a parent or step parent: male spouses or ex spouses committed over half of these cases and 97% of victims were female spouses (n= 834 female victims), women aged 15 to 44 who were in an intimate relationship had slightly higher homicide suicide victimization rates (3. 5 per million, over one quarter (26%) of victims of homicide cleared by suicide between 1961 and 2003 were children and youth under the age of 18, of these victims killed by a parent, 69% were killed by their father, 3% by their step father and 28% by their mother, boys under 1 and girls aged 1 to 5 years old were at greatest risk, older adults, only 137 incidents were reported between 1961 and 2003 and most of these were spousal in nature.