SOC 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Homicide, Learned Helplessness, Acculturation

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2510
• Professor: Linden

Document Summary

Correlate: a phenomenon that accompanies another phenomenon and is related in some way to it. Correlates of criminal behavior: variables that are connected with crime. Correlation is not the same as causation: 6 major correlates of crime are discussed: age, gender, race, drug and alcohol use, socio-economic status, and spatial location. Young people are disproportionately represented in crime (violent crime in particular: criminal activity intensifies in adolescence and young adult and declines thereafter (except white collar crimes) Most common among canadian youth is level 1 assault (11%) acts that do no cause any physical harm to victims (others include threats, assault level 2, and robbery: cannabis possession, administration-of-justice violations, and mischief. Getting drunk on the weekends may no longer sound as attractive as it is for younger people) Life course theory: concerned with the role of age-graded transitions and social controls: articulate how social bonds help reduce the likelihood of involvement in crime.