SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Juvenile Delinquency, Young Offenders Act, Visible Minority

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Bill O' Grady

Document Summary

Policy makers saw that new stats came out and that youth crime. Has law shifted because youth crime was spiking. These laws were shifted due to political reasons. Yoa was a federal piece of information. Jda young people were thought to be delinquents. Why did the yoa replace the jda: only youth were thought to be delinquent. Yoa delinquent was no longer a good term to use, they are now. The change in name had to do with the association with adults seen to be offenders: adults are seen as offenders, children are seen as delinquents. Thomas bernard: the shift was due to the fact that young people are in need of more punishment. Got rid of status offences: was unfair, if a adult did these things than they wouldn"t, (status offences are offences that only apply to young be charged people) In the 1960s youth were now being thought to be legal objects.