SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sudden Fear, Official Statistics, Gender Role

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Bill O' Grady

Document Summary

Measuring youth crime: criminology has often emphasized legal definitions. If there is a sudden fear of youth crime the policies are implemented more quickly or courts may give longer sentences. Young males commit more crimes than young females (roughly 3. 5:1) Male involvement increases with age, female involvement peak around age 15. Females are treated more leniently than males. Part of a paternalistic desire to protect females (cid:862)e(cid:448)il (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:863) h(cid:455)pothesis. Females are treated more harshly than males. Age: younger teens are more likely to engage in property crime, older teens are more likely. Increases from 12 to 17, then declines for all offence types to commit administrative offences (not typically considered criminal, ex breaching probation) Official statistics and youth crime: violent crime. Csi scores for all crimes, including youth crimes, declined between 2003 and 2013: court statistics. Increase in guilty verdicts and harsher sentences in 1990s; less punitive dispositions after the introduction of the ycja.