LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Methamphetamine, Psychophysiology, Abuse
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The probability of an event or an action occurring. *exam* insurance asks probing questions to determine risk level and provide quotations (age, gender, accident, traffic tickets) risk level gets triangulated with police statistics. Youth are assessed in terms of probability in engaging in crime based on background characteristics and triangulated with police statistics, young, unemployed, traffic tickets more likely to have higher insurance compared to married older women. When society can accumulate sufficient data and then use it for calculation accords to risk. Awareness of predictable crime patterns often shapes decision making processes. Used to make the world knowable (knowledgeable, awareness) and governable. Youth are at risk for a greater number of predicaments and misadventures than any other segment of the canadian population. Series of risk factors that increase victimization or deviant behaviour which results in criminal behaviour (poor parental, over-reliance of social peers, aggression) gang violence.
