SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Defense Of Infancy, Youth Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Policy reforms: challenging to implement holistically relections of attitudes and beliefs of society. Social policy often concerned with social control. Alienated from economic & political sectors; experience lower-class life in school and community. Cannot correct youth ofender until overall change occurs within society. Must change processes that lead to inequality, poverty, etc. by promoting well-being of all citizens. Needs of youth and family must be attended to. Youth behaviour determined by social and psychological forces. Evaluation of whole youth and life circumstances. Adolescents can be shown how to change aspects of their lives that can lead to criminal behaviour. Equal balance between rights of society for protection and rights of individual ofender to fair treatment. Sees treatment and rehabilitation by experts with power as infringing on ofender"s rights. Focus on formal system but compensates for age. Youth behaviour result of free will; youth responsible for actions. Youth seen as mini adult : threat to society must be punished.