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Juvenile Delinquency
SEDCUTIONS OF CRIME:
MORAL AND SENSUAL ATTRACTIONS OF DOING EVIL
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Katz claims that criminologists are misguided about the importance of
background characteristics, such as class, racial, education, age, or gender
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Therefore, he argues that girls and boys offend at similar rates
He further argues that need doesn’t explain offending decisions- it is the thrill
of crime that seduces individuals to offend

TESTING KATZ- McCARTHY’S CONTRIBUTION: HOMELESS ADOLSCENTS
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This indicates that need may be influential on crime
McCarthy took interest in this aspect of ‘need’, and conducted research on
homeless youth in Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver to understand how much
need influenced delinquency
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(146)
McCarthy concludes that the motivation for crime exists in the crimeproducing conditions of homelessness, rather than in a person’s background
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(146)
The likelihood of leaving home increased with a number of factors:
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Coercive controls by parents
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Conflict with teachers
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Foreground: McCarthy argues that the current class position of
the homeless youth, and not the class position of their parents, is more
important in assessing delinquency
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Relative v Absolute Deprivation: subjective interpretations of poverty
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Material hardships: unable to get the quality or quantity of
products desired, based on the larger social context
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Absolute: absolute poverty, no secured access to food, shelter
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How much need is experienced by these homeless youth, based on
this notion of relative and absolute deprivation
How much does this need influence crime? Adolescents claim that they
experience this depravity, but this conflicts with Katz’s that need doesn’t
influence crime
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Therefore you need
to separate causes and actual crime in doing this research
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“How often were you hungry? How often did you steal a car?”
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The manner in which opportunities are presented depends on the
routine activities of daily life
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The availability and suitability of targets influences crime (person
walking along, using small cell phone that can be stolen easily)
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Argues that motivation does matter, and that it varies, residing in the situation,
rather than the person
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Youth are more likely to spend time in public places (without capable
guardians)

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