SOC224H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Single Parent, Binge Drinking, Youth Culture
Document Summary
Look at smoking in the textbook: troubling youth- primarily a threat to others and to society, e. g. , youth crime; gangs, the ones who are reading havoc, troubled youth- primarily a threat to themselves, e. g. , substance use. Troubling youth: youth crime: perceptions of youth crime, populate images is out of control , patterns of youth crime, di erent from popular images, peaked in 1991- the 1990s brought out changes in policing. Controlling youth crime & gangs: multiple levels and location of control, family, personal, schools, community, integrated approaches > e. g. , community solution to gang violence, the state took on this parenting role (the youth criminal justice act) Trouble youth: drug use: most common drug is marijuana, between 39. 8% and 62. 6% of youth in grade 12 have tried it. But few use it regularly: multiple causes of drug use, individual, family, school, and community factors, multifaceted social control e orts, individual, family, school, community, criminal law.
