Social Distribution of Crime
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- Created on: 20-11-16 14:34
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- Social Distribution of Crime
- Locality
- Deprived areas
- High Unemployemt
- High level of Poverty
- Urban areas
- More opportunities to commit crime
- Policing is different in rural areas to urban areas
- Deprived areas
- Gender
- Explanation
- Chivarly effect
- Treated less harshly
- Gender Socialisation
- Lack of opportunities
- Chivarly effect
- Women less likely to commit crime
- Explanation
- Chivarly effect
- Treated less harshly
- Gender Socialisation
- Lack of opportunities
- Chivarly effect
- Explanation
- Women are increasingly committing more crime
- Shift in attidtudes
- Similar opportunities now
- Explanation
- Class
- Working class more likely to commit crimes
- Over represented
- Social bias
- Law stricter on working class
- Fewer opportunities legally
- Working class subcultures
- Want to have status
- Deviant norms and values
- Working class more likely to commit crimes
- Ethnicity
- Afro-Caribbeans more likely to commit crime
- More likely to be stopped and searched
- 5 times more likely than whites to be in prison
- Over represented
- Different policing
- More likely to be stopped and searched
- Afro-Caribbeans more likely to commit crime
- Age
- Young people more likely to commit crime
- Explanations
- Peer groups
- Subculture influences
- Explanations
- Explanations
- Peer groups
- Subculture influences
- Young people more likely to commit crime
- Locality
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