PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Truancy, Community Sentence, Cognitive Restructuring
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Ages 12-17 is 10% of the population responsible for 30% of all property offenses and 15% of all violent offences. 7-16 years of age (18 in some jurisdictions) No right to counsel or right to appeal. Delinquency included acts that were not illegal for adults. For homicides, children 14-18 could be transferred to adult court. Study: adults and teenagers looking at pictures of faces with emotions. Part of the brain adults use is the prefrontal cortex. Diversion: instead of prosecution, sentences to an educational or community. Diversion: instead of prosecution, sentences to an educational or community services program (plead guilty) Not available to others once they become an adult. Parents whose kids are not acting right should be responsible. Open: community residential facility, group home, childcare facility. Secure: incarceration in a youth prison facility (1995) bill c-37 section 16: Youths 16 and 17 years old charged with murder, manslaughter, or aggravated sexual assault would go to adult court.
