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

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Preliminary thesis: children who experience physical or emotional abuse are less likely to graduate high school. Unofficial sources: self-report surveys, victimization surveys. Criminology has often emphasized legal definitions: theoretical insight, demographics, crime funnel, administrative variation, data gathering, reporting. Gender: young males commit more crimes than young females (roughly 3. 5:1, male involvement increases with age, female involvement peak around age 15. Chivalry hypothesis: females are treated more leniently than males, part of a paternalistic desire to protect females. Evil women hypothesis: females are treated more harshly than males, female crime violates gender role expectations. Increases from 12-17, then declines for all offence types: younger teens are more likely to engage in property crime, older teens are more likely to commit administrative offences. Violent crime: statistics ca(cid:374)ada"s cri(cid:373)e severit(cid:455) i(cid:374)de(cid:454) (cid:894)csi(cid:895, csi scores for all crimes, including youth crimes, declined between 2003.