Social factors that impacts levels in victims and offenders
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- Created on: 06-12-21 10:21
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- SOCIAL FACTORS THAT IMPACT LEVELS IN..
- OFFENDERS
- GENDER
- Police recorded stats males commit 80% of all crimes
- chivalry thesis
- women treated more leniently due to maternal instincts
- peak offending age peak and decline earlier for women
- CLASS
- Williams
- experience of lower class more freq in prison
- running away from home or exp of vio
- experience of lower class more freq in prison
- Sutherland
- crime is higher in lower class than upper class
- 67% unemploy rate in prison, 5% in gen pop
- Williams
- AGE
- McVie
- age and offending not as clear cut
- Home Office group those 21-25 altogether
- age and offending not as clear cut
- Soothilll
- diff peak offending age for diff crimes
- 16 for burglary 21-15 for motoring a drug
- diff peak offending age for diff crimes
- McVie
- ETHNICITY
- Bowling and Philips
- CPS likely to drop cases w/ black suspects
- due to inadequate evidence, shows they were arrested for no reason
- CPS likely to drop cases w/ black suspects
- black people stopped and searched 7x + than white people
- Bowling and Philips
- GENDER
- VICTIMS
- CLASS
- Young
- 'myth the equal victim'
- poor are hit harder when they are victims
- 'myth the equal victim'
- Kinsey
- poor suffer more than wealthy
- 'multiple victimisation' due to number of social problems faced
- poor suffer more than wealthy
- Young
- AGE
- CSEW 2009
- 10-15 yrs old
- 12% victims, 56% victims of vio crime
- 10-15 yrs old
- CSEW 2009
- GENDER
- Hamner and Saunders
- 20% women sexually assaulted and don't report
- Stanko
- 24Hr, incident of DV reported every second but no arrests
- Walklate
- abusive relationships, women x econ indep, no home
- 50%+ women homicide victims killed by husband
- abusive relationships, women x econ indep, no home
- Hamner and Saunders
- ETHNICITY
- Home Office 2005
- black people 5x + likely to be murdered
- CSEW 2012
- BAME groups more at risk of being victim of personal crime
- Home Office 2005
- CLASS
- OFFENDERS
- VICTIMS
- CLASS
- Young
- 'myth the equal victim'
- poor are hit harder when they are victims
- 'myth the equal victim'
- Kinsey
- poor suffer more than wealthy
- 'multiple victimisation' due to number of social problems faced
- poor suffer more than wealthy
- Young
- AGE
- CSEW 2009
- 10-15 yrs old
- 12% victims, 56% victims of vio crime
- 10-15 yrs old
- CSEW 2009
- GENDER
- Hamner and Saunders
- 20% women sexually assaulted and don't report
- Stanko
- 24Hr, incident of DV reported every second but no arrests
- Walklate
- abusive relationships, women x econ indep, no home
- 50%+ women homicide victims killed by husband
- abusive relationships, women x econ indep, no home
- Hamner and Saunders
- ETHNICITY
- Home Office 2005
- black people 5x + likely to be murdered
- CSEW 2012
- BAME groups more at risk of being victim of personal crime
- Home Office 2005
- CLASS
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