Age and Crime
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- Created on: 18-05-19 16:34
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- Age and Crime
- Patterns
- say young males are criminals (10-17) = 13% of crime
- theft, drug, violence and burglary is for young
- Caspi and Moffit - young people seek independence BUT short supply so deviance acts seen as expression can bring status
- Owen and Cooper = most youth crime are theft and violence
- Youths are most commonly the victims too
- at home more so more risk
- highest risk of murder is under ones
- teens > adults = assault, sex, theft, abuse
- Old at risk of abuse (nursing home)
- say young males are criminals (10-17) = 13% of crime
- Control Theory
- people don't commit crime so strong social bond (family and friends) so too much to loose (Hirschi)
- Kids have strong bonds BUT adolescents loosen so less constrained by social bonds - deviant from norms and value
- Youth are fully socialised / testing boundaries / youth make more visible / "white collar" are by old people BUT hidden
- A. Cohen = status frustration is block of opportunity so use deviant methods to gain status
- Caspi and Moffit = independence and status express freedom solution to the status is to seek respect in eyes of peer group - delinquency
- Theories...
- Functionalist = status frustration and failure to internalise norms and values boundaries
- Marxist = marginalisation, ideology and subculture (Hebdige)
- Feminism = fear of victimisation, control theory and bias to women
- R.Realist = lack of moral values, less nuclear family, underclass, biological factors
- L.Realist = relative deprivation, marginalisation and subculture
- Patterns
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