Sociology: Notes on Social Dimensions of Crime

brotherly DIMENSIONS OF CRIME 1. AGE 2. gender 3. ETHNICITY 4. amicable CLASS Since the recession of the 1980s, employment rates for adolescents increase yearly and have an impact on the diminishment of young person crime The younger you are, the to a greater extent prone you are to be a victim of victimization The older you get, the more you are prone for property crimes and less for physical crimes SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME 1. AGE 2. SEX 3. ETHNICITY 4. SOCIAL CLASS MALES Offenders are most likely to be male. They account for 80% of all vicious 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 different than the ones males engage in. (Credit card fraud, shoplifting) The feminization of poverty we are seeing the high rise of poor, single mothers Men & Women have equal tendencies to be victim ise by crimes the difference between the two is that they are more likely to be victimized by different crimes. They are not equally victimized to the same crimes. MEN Assault, theftWOMEN Sexual Assault SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME 1. AGE 2. SEX 3. ETHNICITY 4. SOCIAL CLASS Big over presentation of aboriginal peoples in federal & provincial prisons. In general, aboriginals only desexualise up 3% of Canadas population, but 16% of Canadas inmates. Howard Sapers noted that aboriginal people are mistreated (receive harsher treatment) by workers, prison guards, psychologists, and are more likely to be denied parole. They are also more likely to be sent to maximum trade protection prisons. SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME 1. AGE 2. SEX 3. ETHNICITY 4. SOCIAL CLASSTodays social class, it doesnt matter if youre large or poor, all have equal tendencies to commit crimes. The difference is the type of crimes that the poor commit and the abstruse commit. Rich commit more sophisticated/organized cri mes Poor 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 living 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.