SOC 1500 Study Guide - Consensus Reality, Major Crimes, Participant Observation
9 Feb 2014
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Crime and criminal justice sept 17th 2009. Self report survey: international youth survey (iys) the iys was administrated to a sample of students in grades 7 through 9 in toronto in april and may 2006. >[findings] violent delinquency cannot be attributed solely to the characteristics of individual students; rather, conditions associated with schools and the areas in which they are located may also play a roll. Canadian urban victimization survey victimization experiences of individuals samples at household via the phone. Demographic info i. e. age, gender, martial status, # of children. Collected every 5 years in canada (15 years of age and older) Sexual assault, robbery, assault, break and enter, theft of personal property, household property, motor vehicle theft, vandalism. Victims may not know it"s a crime. Some crimes cannot be measured this way. Conflict tactic scale measuring acts of violence/ crime. [hitting wife with a bat vs. missing with a wet diaper]
