Examples of Status Offenses in the following topics:
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- Depending on the type and severity of the offense committed, it is possible for persons under 18 to be charged and tried as adults.
- Status offenses: offenses which are only classified as such because one is a minor, such as truancy, also dealt with by the juvenile courts.
- When considering these statistics, which state that Black and Latino teens are more likely to commit juvenile offenses, it is important to keep the following in mind: poverty is a large predictor of low parental monitoring, harsh parenting, and association with deviant peer groups, all of which are in turn associated with juvenile offending.
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- Status inconsistency occurs when an individual's social positions are varied and these variations influence his or her overall social status.
- Status inconsistency is a situation where an individual's social positions have both positive and negative influences on his or her social status.
- For example, a teacher may have a positive societal image (respect, prestige, etc.), which increases her status but she may earn little money, which simultaneously decreases her status.
- Sociologists investigate issues of status inconsistency in order to better understand status systems and stratification, and because some sociologists believe that positions of status inconsistency might have strong effects on people's behavior.
- Gerhard Lenski originally predicted that people suffering from status inconsistency would favor political actions and parties directed against higher status groups.
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- While debated, the percentage of prison inmates who have been wrongly convicted of crimes is estimated to be somewhere between less than 1% all the way up to 9%, which could mean hundreds of thousands of prison inmates are actually innocent.The figure to the right breaks down the correctional system population by the status of individuals in the correctional system, including:
- The U.S. has a relatively high recidivism rate (recidivism refers to the frequency of repeat offenses).
- One factor that contributes to the high recidivism rates is the social stigma that accompanies having been convicted of a felony in the US. van Olphen et al. (2009)[12] found that individuals convicted of drug offenses were very likely to be reincarcerated, largely due to punitive punishments that accompanied their "convicted felon" stigma.
- A relatively recent innovation in criminal justice that has been shown to moderately reduce recidivism rates is "drug courts," or alternative sentencing systems that mandate treatment and therapy rather than jail time for drug offenses.
- The discriminatory prosecution of African Americans for drug offenses is just one way in which the criminal justice system in the U.S. works against African American equality.
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- Posture can be used to determine an individual's degree of intention or involvement, the difference in status between interlocutors, and the level of fondness a person has for the other communicator, depending on body "openness. "
- For example, in the Western world, waving one's hand back and forth communicates "hello" or "goodbye. " Emblem gestures can vary by cultural space so widely that a common gesture in one context is offensive in another.
- The types of clothing an individual wears convey nonverbal clues about his or her personality, background, and financial status.
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- Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime initially was defined by sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation. " A clear example of how deviance reflects power imbalances is in the reporting and tracking of crimes.
- Research suggests that police are more likely to make an arrest if the offense is serious, if bystanders are present, or if the suspect is of a visible minority.
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- In criminal law, an offense against the person usually refers to a crime which is committed by direct physical harm or force being applied to another person.
- They are usually analyzed by division into fatal offenses, sexual offenses, or non-fatal non-sexual offenses.
- Although most sexual offenses will also be offenses against the person, sexual crimes are usually categorized separately.
- Similarly, although many homicides also involve an offense against the person, they are usually categorized under the more serious category.
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- Whenever there is any form of society, one sees social status come into play.
- One's social status is determined in different ways.
- One can earn his or her social status by his or her own achievements; this is known as achieved status.
- Social status is most often understood as a melding of the two types of status, with ascribed status influencing achieved status.
- Admission, therefore, is an achieved status that was heavily influenced by resources made available by the person's ascribed status.
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- Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as "capital crimes" or "capital offenses. " Capital punishment has in the past been practiced by most societies.
- In many countries that use the death penalty, drug trafficking is also a capital offense.
- In militaries around the world courts, martial have imposed death sentences for offenses, such as cowardice, desertion, insubordination, and mutiny.
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- Historically, adultery has been considered a serious offense in many cultures.
- Even in jurisdictions where adultery is not a criminal offense itself, it may still have legal consequences, particularly in divorce cases.
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- In an open class system, people are ranked by achieved status, whereas in a closed class system, people are ranked by ascribed status.
- In modern western Europe, status depends on individual educational and professional attainment, meaning that people are ranked based on achieved status.
- Thus, people were ranked by ascribed status.
- Status based on family background, ethnicity, gender, and religion, which is also known as "ascribed status," is less important.
- People in such societies may be confined to their ancestral occupations, and their social status is largely prescribed by status at birth.