SOC301H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Short, Sharp Shock, Juvenile Delinquency, Paradigm Shift
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Things learned in the past 2 weeks: not radical change just different ways of regulating? (shaw) Restorative justice seems to be a paradigm shift (aboriginal offenders) Admission of guilt is usually required to enter these programs. Maybe we aren"t talking about deviance anymore, it"s the at-risk youth. Heavily framed in morality terms: new constructions. Youth crime: some points to consider: drift theory matza. Even the ones who do commit delinquency are not committed to a deviant lifestyle/belief system. Young people drift in and out of crime and learn ways to justify committing crime and delinquency. They are not committed long term crime, it"s just situational. Age 16 is its peak, it drifts off after about 24: life course persistent offender. The idea that you can find young people that will commit crime all throughout their life. Others will be adolescent-limited , they will just grow up and out of crime: cambridge-sommerville study.
