Age and Crime

Question 1

What is deviance among younger generations known as?

Answer 1

• Juvenile Delinquency

Question 2

Complete the following sentence:

• 2002 official statistics found roughly ______ of all convictions were offenders aged _____ or under.

Answer 2

• Half

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Question 3

Complete the following sentence:

• The 2002 British Crime Survey found that ______ half of all ______ school students admitted to have broken the ______ at some point.

Answer 3

• Over
• Secondary
• Law

Question 4

Complete the following sentence:

• The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (1998) was a ____________ study which studied 4,300 youths in Edinburgh and found that around ___________ the crimes committed by 11 -15 year-olds involved vandalism, _________ and shoplifting.

Answer 4

• Longitudinal
• Half
• Fighting

Question 5

Why are young people more likely to be the victim of a crime?

Answer 5

• Because of the correlation between the greater opportunity that young people have to commit crime and the increased risk that this creates for being a victim.