SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Truancy, American Middle Class, Anger Management
21 Mar 2017
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Ideas of juvenile delinquency (idea of what is the crime out there, is it a result of bad parenting, behavioural characteristics) Ideas of juvenile justice (the infrastructure that we have to guide the committed crime) Law reform tied to crime rates: 2. Two ideas emerge from the (cid:498)cycle(cid:499): above the age of 17 you are automatically put into the adult justice system. The juvenile delinquents act (jda): comes into effect in 1908: made to focus on the best interest of the child in the reflection in the eyes of, reformers include j. j. kelso and w. l. Scott (progressive thinkers: rise of the (cid:498)child savers(cid:499) movement, built on the premise of (cid:498)parens patriae(cid:499) (cid:523)the state is parent, lenient policy) Notion of a slap on the wrist, essentially saying that were too soft on crime the jailing have to move to an adult court. Continued problems with the yoa people? and not the victim. Political solutions to problems: fears of crime drives policy.
