SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Status Offense, Major Crimes, Social Inequality
8 Jan 2019
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Self reported sexual assault in canada, 2014 by statistics canada (2017) Crimes in general: males are victims and males are perpetrators. Race: aboriginal adult admissions to custody, by province and territory. Bias in surveillance - in both minor misbehaviours and major crimes. Classi cation of prisoners in canada - based on questionnaire from usa,uk and australia (biased) Structural problems: if you are trapped in a cycle of violence that oe back to you grandparents you will be trapped in that, enhances your likelihood of your criminal life as both victim and perpetrator. Representation of original in total admission to youth custody and community services. Over-representation of indigenous even higher in the youth group. Crime is highly correlated with age and gender. Also correlated with socioeconomic status but the correlation is extremely indirect, sometimes also spurious. Variables you need to account for hen talking about money: neighbourhood, networks, family, educational background, etc.
