CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Mens Rea, Actus Reus, Sexting
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1. significant increase in canadian crime rate in the past 10 years. Much of crime decrease is driven by property crime. Violent crime has decreased 3% from 10 years ago. 5600 fewer homicides from 2009 until 2010: levels of youth violence in canada has never been higher. 1995 was the peek of youth crime violence. Since then, there has been a gradual decline. Was a suttle but noticeable decrease of 8% 2001. Most of the violent crimes were level 1 assults (hitting, pushing shoving, etc. : most crimes are committed by people unknown to one another. Usually known to victim: city with the highest crime rate in canada is toronto. Winnepeg has the highest crime rate in all of canada. Places like brampton and thunder bay are higher. Theses statistics are not based on violent crimes: studies have demonstrated a causable link between media violence and future criminal behaviour. There has been a correlation between the two, but not a causable relationship.