CRIM 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Juvenile Delinquency, Ethnography, Indian Act
14 Apr 2017
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Chapter 4: the social face of youth crime. Self report surveys challeneged all these images of young offenders being impoverished working class males. Youth crime itself is a socio political construction that is reinforced b media portrayals of crime. Ethnographic method: a research method that involves richly detailed descriptions and classifications of a group of people or beahviors: type of field research, direct participation, observation, comprehensive interviews. Longitudinal studies: a research method in which data on a group of people are collected over a number of time periods, rather than at only one point in their lives: greater emphasis on age. Race/ethnicity: race: a socially construced category based on beleifs about biological differences between groups of people that have nobasis in scientific evidence. Ethnicity: perso(cid:374)"s group f origi(cid:374), (cid:449)here origi(cid:374) is usuall(cid:455) thought of i(cid:374) ter(cid:373)s of a(cid:374)(cid:272)estral lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d/or elements of culture. Language, style of dress, behavioral pattern, social customs.
