SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Parens Patriae, C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, Defense Of Infancy
25 Jan 2018
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The social and historical origins of youth justice. The (cid:862)good old days(cid:863: e(cid:448)ery ge(cid:374)eratio(cid:374) see(cid:373)s to re(cid:272)all a ti(cid:373)e (cid:449)he(cid:374) thi(cid:374)gs (cid:449)ere (cid:862)(cid:271)etter(cid:863) Available crime statistics do not indicate any such period in canadian history. Young people have always been responsible for far less and less serious crime than adults. However there is no evidence in canadian history that this is true that crime has gotten worse no clear generational divide. Youth crime is committed less and less dangerously than adults. O(cid:374) april (cid:1005)9, (cid:1005)7(cid:1007)7 a (cid:1005)(cid:1004) yr old ser(cid:448)a(cid:374)t set fire to his (cid:373)aster"s house i(cid:374) (cid:374)o(cid:448)a s(cid:272)otia: during the colonial period, youth crime was largely attributed to: Britains poor and orphaned children were shipped to canada as indentured servants, more than 95,000 child servants were sent here, and many young girls were forced into prostitution. New urban problems included illiteracy, sex trade, addiction, poverty, and juvenile delinquency youth crime was framed as an issue of morality.
