SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: General Social Survey, Elder Abuse, Victimology
7 May 2016
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Crime & criminal justice week 5 victims/victimization. Liberation thesis (daly & chesney-lind, 1988) correlation with more labour participation, leaving the house, having more opp to commit crime the more liberated women were, the more access to opp to commit crimes. Mixed results empirically (women are more likely to come into system for shoplifting, prostitution, female crimes) Power-control theory (hagan, gillis & simpson) family structure = important role in young females. Who"s to blame? the mothers responsible for forming criminals, where is the father in this? sometimes crime = due to poor relationships with fathers, not mothers. Work & leisure activities determine how much time one spends in dwelling or outside. Most ppl are gone during the day, explains why there are more burglaries during day. Used for gain or profit ie robbery, threat: expressive. Mandatory arrest policies used to treat it as a private matter:
