LS227 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: White-Collar Crime, Domestic Violence, Homicide

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LS227
• Professor: Vanessa Iafolla

Document Summary

Usually tapers off and declines after young adulthood. Theft under is the most common crime by youth. More likely to occur in a group vs by an individual. Maturation reform - people are less likely to commit crime as they age. Because they are in between children and adults in age. Aren"t adults, so they shoplift because they don"t have any nancial stability. There are psychological limits as you age. By marriage and children, you feel the need to be moral for the family. Adults don"t take pleasure in the same things teens do. Life course theory - other social markers that occur as we age (education, marriage, family ect) reduce the likelihood of engaging in crime. Re-evaluation of the costs and bene ts of crime. Females are less likely to be charged with criminal offences. Need to care for their children and family. Males and females are both more likely to be murdered by a male.