PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Truancy, Psychopathology, Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Document Summary
Overview: definition and nature of juvenile delinquency, the youth criminal justice act, risk factors for delinquency, disruptive behavioral disorders and crime, youth criminal trajectories, risk assessment with young offenders, young offender treatment, youth sexual offending. Least possible interference in freedom required for the protection of society. Youth criminal justice act (2003: ycja includes some special provisions, use of alternative measures, restorative justice, mediation. Intensive rehabilitative custody and supervision (ircs: reserved for some of the worst offenders to get extra treatment and resources, must have committed a serious crime. Drop in proportion of youth charged following ycja. Risk factors in the onset and development of delinquency. Risk factors in the onset and development of delinquency: social risk factors, poverty and social inequality, peer associations, high crime, low ses neighborhood, familial risk factors, single-parent household, marital discord, abuse/neglect, familial stress, parental psychopathology. Risk factors in the onset and development of delinquency: developmental risk factors, early misbehavior, early onset of delinquency.
