Sociology: Notes on Social Dimensions of Crime

affable DIMENSIONS OF criminal offence 1. AGE 2. wind up 3. ETHNICITY 4. complaisant CLASS Since the recession of the 1980s, involvement rates for adolescents increase yearly and founder an impact on the diminishment of youth discourtesy The younger you ar, the much than given you are to be a victim of using The older you get, the more you are prone for keeping crimes and less for physical crimes SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME 1. AGE 2. finish up 3. ETHNICITY 4. SOCIAL CLASS MALES Offenders are most plausibly to be male. They account for 80% of all told criminal offences. 90% of all homicides, sexual assaults, and robbery crimes.And 78% of all property crimes (breaking & entering, theft). Since the 1960s, we see an increase in female criminality. However, the specific crimes they engage in are assorted than the ones males engage in. (Credit plug-in fraud, shoplifting) The feminization of p all overty we are sightedness the high rise of scant(p), single mothers w orkforce & Women have concern tendencies to be secondhand by crimes the difference amidst the two is that they are more in all probability to be victimized by different crimes. They are not equally victimized to the same crimes. MEN invade, theftWOMEN Sexual Assault SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME 1. AGE 2. SEX 3. ETHNICITY 4. SOCIAL CLASS Big over pre moveation of aboriginal peoples in federal & provincial prisons. In general, aboriginals all realise up 3% of Canadas population, but 16% of Canadas inmates. Howard Sapers celebrated that aboriginal people are abused (receive harsher treatment) by workers, prison guards, psychologists, and are more potential to be denied parole. They are in like manner more likely to be sent to maximum security prisons. SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME 1. AGE 2. SEX 3. ETHNICITY 4. SOCIAL CLASSTodays social class, it doesnt matter if youre abstruse or poor, all have equal tendencies to pull up crimes. The difference is the type of crimes that the poor commit and the rich commit. Rich commit more sophisticated/organized crimes pitiful commit more survival crimes (theft, If you make less than 15 thousand dollars a year, research shows that youre more likely to be a target of a violent crime because youre probably victuals in the ghetto If you make more than 60 thousand dollars a year, research shows that youre more likely to get robbed, because you have more to rob.