AHSS 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anger Management

• School: UofGH
• Department: Arts, Humanities, Social Science
• Course: AHSS 1160
• Professor: David Mikelberg

Document Summary

Lecture 2: deterrence and criminology theory, retributive system of justice) The empirical evidence regarding harsh deterrence-based approaches towards youth crime is, for the most part, inconsistent, with negative outcomes being seen in a number of different studies (baron, 1998; bishop and frazier, 2000; fagan, Kupchick and liberman, 2003; johnson, simons and conger, 2004; mackenzie, Regarding youth waiver policies, the results of some studies demonstrate that youth transferred into the adult criminal justice system may be at a higher risk to recidivate (bishop and frazier, 2000; fagan, kupchick and liberman, 2003; myers. 2001, 2003b), and to do so more quickly than retained youth (fagan, kupchick and. Additionally, there is evidence to suggest that such policies have little or no effect on juvenile crime rates in general (jensen and. Metsger, 1994; ruhland, gold and heckman, 1982) and that their goals of harsher punishment certainty and severity are perhaps not even being met (dawson, 1992;