PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes -Peer Pressure, Impulsivity, Psychopathology

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Factors that place a male or female on criminal trajectory: individual personality factors: impulsivity, interpersonal factors: poor relationship choices, family factors, community factors- living in high crime neighbourhood, structural factors- poverty racism. Lombroso: first studied female offenders female criminal conduct was unequivocally sexist and overly focused on biology and sexuality, relative to male criminal conduct. 1970"s after lombroso: didn"t pay attention to female offenders. Or assumed any reasoning behind male crime applied to female crime. Understand female analysis through lens of feminism. Universal fact: girls and women commit less crime and particular less violent crime compared to men and boys. Violent offending: women only account for 16 percent. Women in 2005 stats, accused of less homicide and sexual assault. Males outnumber women in all crimes except prostitution. Male to female ratio of individuals classified as adolescent limited ( criminal conduct begins during adolescence, and is relatively minor and short lived) is 1. 5: 1.

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