SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Zero Tolerance (Schools), School Discipline, Parens Patriae

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Social exclusion: the process of being shut out from any of the social, economical, political, or cultural systems that determine the social integration of a person into society (walker and. A multi-dimensional construct (poverty, gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. ) 40% of homeless youth are lgbt; many homeless youth have a mental illness. Often victimized by sexual predators, taken advantage of by landlords. Homeless youth who feel the most excluded are at the greatest risk for committing a crime. Gaetz and o"grady (2002) found homeless youth are involved in many money-making activities. Youth with the most troubled backgrounds and facing the worst immediate situations were the most likely to make money by engaging in risky or illegal activities. A group of individuals with identi able leadership claiming control over territory and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behaviour (miller, Black in toronto, asian or south asian in vancouver, aboriginal in prairies.