SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Best Interests, Juvenile Delinquency, Young Offenders Act
6 Apr 2018
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Legal response to youth (the jda & yoa) You develop a policy, then there is critics who call for a reform, attempt to reform policy, keeps going in a never ending cycle. No one ever seems satisfied with the polices on youth crime: three ideas emerge. Ideas of juvenile delinquency: the doing the behaviour of the individuals. Ideas of juvenile justice: the court and justice system, how police should interact with a young person. One takes a more conservative approach and the other a more sociological approach (liberal) There is one side that claims crime is a cry for help, the other claims we are being too lenient on these youths. There is conflict about how the system should work and how we should treat them. Two approaches to punishment: punishment- deterrent model (harsh) jail time, adult sentences, ways you can deter through the concept of harsh penalties (scared straight, reform rehabilitation model (lenient)
