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In 2005, 1.8 million offenders were found guilty of, or cautioned for, indictable and summary offences in England and Wales, (see Appendix, Part 9: Types of offences in England and Wales) 1 per cent less than in 2004. Most of the offenders were male (79 per cent), of whom around 12 per cent were aged 17 and under.
 * __**Who is guilty?**__



This is Zoë Pujols info:
 * Who is guilty?
 * Who decides?
 * What does 'guilty' mean?

WHO IS GUILTY? You can be guilty in many ways. You can be guilty by comiting a crime, bieng deviant or comit delinquency. Starting with crime, we know that crime means the breaking of rules that have been made into laws by the rulers of the goverment of a society. According to official statistics, men commit far more crime than women. nearly five times as many men as women were found guilty or cautiond. (Some women do of coure commite more crime, and in recent years several female criminals have become famouse). Why do women commit less crime? Girls are also influenced by there ifnrmal sociol controle. Because girls are influenced by there family, peer group and education system they are tought to be pasive... There seems to be more men in crime, but what tipe of men? There are stereotipes of what tipes of men are criminals, even in films you know who the villain is by just looking at him. This happened in the past, but in a harsher ways, In the past one of the earliest biological theories of crime was that criminals had different physical features. Lombroso (an Italian doctor) said that that criminals had larg gaws, large ears, dark skin, flat nostruls, thick hair, the inability to blush and the insensitivity to pain.
 * Boys and girls are sociolised differnently.
 * Girls are expected to be more passive
 * Boys are encouraged to be more active and are tough to be able to fight when necessary.
 * Females often have less opportunities to commite crime than men.**
 * Girls are usually more closely supervised
 * Boys are given more freedemWomen are usually responsable for looking after people, this restricts the opportunities for crime

DEVIANCE... Means bejavior that most or all people disaprove of in society. Such bejavior will not conform to societys norma and values. Whetheran act is seen as deviantor not depends on the sociol situations.

DELNQUENCY... Is a term to describe behavior by young people that is dissapproved of. Mostly it is deviant, but sometimes delinquents breack laws as well, and so commite crime. Young people commite a lot of offences, though usually fairly minor ones,