HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spring Break, Professional Boundaries
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Motor vehicles injuries, not home injuries, leisure injuries, work injuries. Violence and intentional injuries and not providing emergency care. Injuries and deaths: poor mental health, conduct disorders, lack of social and emotional responsiveness, economic costs. Violence is associated with: lack of social status/power, lack of economic resources (housing, employment, education, discrimination, cultural and social beliefs, poor role models; exposure to violent social models, hopelessness, gender. Includes criminal code traffic violations, federal statute violations such as drug offence. Crime in canada: stats canada 2016 report: canada"s crime rate has steadily declined for 2 decades. In 2014, it reached its lowest level since 1973. It is 28% lower than a decade ago. Motivation for crime: 48% race or ethnicity, 34% religion, 12% sexual orientation, 6% other (ability, sex, language, age, etc. ) Type of crime: 20% violent (assault, uttering threat, 62% nonviolent (property damage)