Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mass Surveillance, System 6, Burglary
12 Feb 2018
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What crime rates can and can"t tell us. Help to teach us how to prevent certain crimes. Crime statistics can"t tell us why crimes are happening but can help us to understand. The official recording of a crime involves many steps: The person must repost the crime to the police. Dark figure crime: the crimes that are excluded from ucr official data. Bigger groups of better trained and equipped law enforcement and correctional officers. Young men are most prone to crime, but canada is aging and the number of young people in the population has declined. Age is a strong correlate of criminal behaviours. The peak age for most crimes is between the end of adolescence and the beginning of young adulthood (15-25y/o) After young adulthood: crime is declining from its peak. Explanations for peeking criminal propensity of the 15-25 years old: Haven"t experienced "hard time" in prison: young offenders are often treated leniently by the criminal justice system.
