CHYS 3P40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Parens Patriae, Homicide, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 3P40
• Professor: Voula Marinos

Document Summary

The criminal justice process: nuts and bolts : changing definitions of youth crime, measuring youth crime: official statistics, self-report, victimization survey, relationship between conceptualizing young offenders and youth criminal justice system, conclusions. Introduction to the youth criminal justice act (ycja) Think about an image of a young offender. Quickly write down 5 characteristics (cid:523)don(cid:495)t think about it too much(cid:524) Introduction to course: critically analyze from a multidisciplinary perspective. Thinking critically about (cid:498)youth crime(cid:499) and (cid:498)young offenders(cid:499: critical thought not necessarily negative, don(cid:495)t take crime (cid:498)facts(cid:499) for granted, think about assumptions being made about young people, think about assumptions being made about crime. Assume behaviour is complex, controversial, and contested (easy to say that all kids that commit a crime should be handled in the same way, but this is not necessarily true) Ask the right questions and you(cid:495)ll get the right answers!