Sociology 2267A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Property Crime, Young Offenders Act, Motor Vehicle Theft
21 Feb 2018
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Sources and what they tell us about youth crime. Ucr2 provides stats on 200 crim offense categories crime stats as property, violent, and (cid:498)other(cid:499) index crimes. What courts tell us about youth crime: similar patterns to police stats, high rates of administrative offences. Sexual assault: 13 and 14 yr olds involved in minor offences like unwanted sexual touching of victims own age, highest rates as victims is 13-15 for girls and 4-14 for boys (age 4 highest for boys) C&m argued it was b/c of increased crime offences said couldn"t be accounted for by changes in policing: argued it not useful to use police reports to compare changes in crime over. )n general, young people don"t lie about the misdeeds seen more often in adults. Recalling crime period but recalled correctly: telescoping: people tend to lump offences that may have occurred several.
