CRM 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Restorative Justice, Prentice Hall, Fay Gale
7 Mar 2016
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The criminal justice system is suppose to be a process that helps people receive a sentence which is appropriate for their offence, however this is not the cause for youth. Youth require a qualitatively different response that adult offenders (minaker & Hogeveen 2009), this is specifically seen in the case of special populations such as criminalized girls and aboriginal youth. A first major concern with a special population is girls and their interaction with the criminal justice system. The adult system is androcentric, meaning that it is based on male behaviour. Specifically because of this many prison system are not skilled on how to properly handle female offenders, let alone young female offenders. Minaker and hogeveen there are three main differences of young females that need to be taken into consideration, biological differences, the masculinization of female deviance and the gender-role socialization.
