Sociology 2267A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Victimless Crime, Young Offenders Act
30 Dec 2020
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Crime, youth deviance and the media i: youth crime and justice, typical questions. Often times answers are based on own personal feelings. Sources of measurement: official counts of social control. Limitations in assuming a purely legal definition: theoretical insight. Excludes the idea of victimless crimes: demographic. Age distribution is a large factor: case filtration and dismissal. We often see crimes eliminated from this filter: policy and administration variation. Police department reporting varies: method of gathering statistics. Data used to track youth crime rates: reporting rates. Related to societies attitudes about different types of crime. We make the assumption that all police departments make reports: public perception. Affects the way the legislation is used: technologies. It is becoming more and more difficult to detected certain crimes. Cannot be adequately quantified - no reliable statistics kept prior to 1876: state intervention (late 19th century)
