SOC 1500- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 51 pages long!)

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Street crime(conventional: offenders anyone can commit it, those of the lower classes are more likely to be charged and convicted. More likely to be arrested than someone older. Only exception of this is infanticide (only women can be charged with this). Infanticide is the killing of your child under the age of 12 months, through the process of giving birth. Females are more likely to supervise their daughters more closely, males enjoy more freedom of supervision allowing them to take more risk this means deviance and crime is more possible. Young boys are more likely to be out later and roaming the streets: opportunity having less supervision allows males more opportunity to commit crimes, females have less opportunities. Over-representation: aboriginals are over-represented in homicide and other crimes in canada. The killing of a person during the commission of another crime(most common) Sentence is life in prison without parole for 25 years, dangerous people may never get out.