Sociology 2267A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Parens Patriae, Juvenile Delinquency, Anger Management
29 Feb 2016
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Chapter 2: creating a juvenile justice system: then and now. One perspective on early youth crime laws is that they were developed to address concerns about rising poverty and youth crime in urban areas. Result of new urbanization: poor children on the streets and new rime committed by youth. This creates a fear among upper classes that the root problem of crime lies in the children of the poor and working (or dangerous ) class. Difference in family construction (two parents working) Report areas where crime is, make people associate crime with people living in those areas. Youth crime is most often committed against other youth. View of the origin of youth crime laws is that 19th-century north american social reformers were influential in the creation of a separate justice system for juveniles. They believed that delinquency was the result of a bad social environment. Children could be saved and therefore reformed through various methods.
