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The notion that female youth crime is increasing is implemented in out heads by the media. ... The problem of defining crime rate is that it has a lot to do with the question of “what causes crime? ... For years, criminologists have been worrying that the growing number of disadvantaged young females would lead to a “Crime storm”. However, three years after the storm was supposed to begin, it was noted that the crime rated had fallen dramatically. Communities, which mostly depend on the media for information still think that the female youth crime is increasing and are asking to impose more sever sanctions and overhaul the young offender act. ...
The media play a large part in profiling female youth crime in a dramatic manner (Peter G, Pg. ... The article catalogues that most serious offences committed by female adolescents across Canada, and suggest that one can make generalizations about the nature of girls from these incidents,”
Many more articles like these show that the average Canadian depends on the media as their main source of knowledge about female youth crime. Their conclusions would have to be that female youth crime is increasing at a very high rate. ...
However, Canadian statistics based on the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) Survey, victim surveys and youth cases do not support the images and the messages of the media. For example, the violent crime case rate in youth courts increased between 1992 and 1994 but decreased from 1994 though 1996-97. Considering the growth of female youth population, the rate of youth court cases per 10,000 youths has decreased 9% since 1992-1993.
Approximate Word count = 1266
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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