ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 5Aa, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Rupert Murdoch

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADJUS-120
• Professor: Jordan

Document Summary

For many crime categories (e. g. , sexual assault and assault), people are more likely to be victimised by persons known to them rather than strangers (see ch 5). Violent crime in our society is on the rise. For several forms of violent crime, rates have remained fairly stable or are on the decline. The elderly are the least at risk of becoming the victims of crime. Elderly people as a group have the lowest risk of crime victimisation. Females are more likely to become victims of crime compared to males. For most violent crimes males make up the majority of crime victims. Most offenders who begin offending in adolescence continue to offend well into adulthood. The vast majority of young people who offend do so only once or only for a very short period over the life course. Is influenced by how crime is defined. Less crime news when crime is narrowly defined as violation of criminal laws.