CRI370H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leilani Muir, Gender Role, Nuclear Family
30 Mar 2019
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Youth Justice Lecture 2 Historical Construction of
Delinquency and Regulation of Sexuality.
• Participation, Protection, Revision and Care→ as a thread.
• Who might benefit from having an ablest regulation of the family?
• The family is the most important social unit in society. We don't see and think about
how that has huge impacts on the family.
• Leilani Muir
- Forced medicalization/ forced sterilization
- Institutionalization
- Did not test her but found her “feebleminded”
• “Children”
- process of taking children and giving them care, it takes decision making away from
families
- it also shifts perspective from is this family being supported in society? Are they
given the capacity to support one another?
- There is this individualization that goes on
- Coercive state intervention, it children and family who don't embody traditional
norms. The intrusion into people’s lives, sets up the notion that there is inequality in
society.
- “delinquency” what does it mean to be delinquent- straying from cultural or societal
norms, outside the normalcy established by someone, delinquent does not mean
anything until meaning is put in it. Does delinquency come from social status?
• “boys will be men, and girls will be mothers”
- gendered application of delinquency
• Delinquency:
- Child is a relational term (talking about kinship terms), as a legal term what does the
category of child perform?
- The category of children is indeterminate and contingent
- “child” as a cite that is culturally bound, it has with it a set of rules and ideas of
proper roles and behaviours of children
- law begins to codifies who adults and who children are and what they need.
- Also notions of being an adult of being in a middle class, a part of a nuclear family, a
settler, and being financially independent.
- Norms of children: dependent, obedient, innocent, tamed, conforming to gender
norms, unemployed, cared for and not care giving, irrational, unformed, incapable of
judgment.
Document Summary
Delinquency and regulation of sexuality: participation, protection, revision and care as a thread, who might benefit from having an ablest regulation of the family, the family is the most important social unit in society. We don"t see and think about how that has huge impacts on the family: leilani muir. Did not test her but found her feebleminded . There is this individualization that goes on. Coercive state intervention, it children and family who don"t embody traditional norms. The intrusion into people"s lives, sets up the notion that there is inequality in society. Delinquency what does it mean to be delinquent- straying from cultural or societal norms, outside the normalcy established by someone, delinquent does not mean anything until meaning is put in it. Does delinquency come from social status: boys will be men, and girls will be mothers . The category of children is indeterminate and contingent.
