WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Young Offenders Act, Proactive Policing, Black Kids
19 May 2012
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How these changes have impact on relations police have on you and the relations police have with the youth. When children have interactions with the police in north american society, young people under age 12, the interactions not always, but for the most part are pretty positive. Positive because of the context in which young people interact with the police. When children see the police it"s usually in the mass media, in schools give young people information on drugs for example (public education), done in a non threatening and non confrontational way. At that point the relations with police are usually pretty positive, children overall don"t often have negative interaction with the police unless it"s through the parents. That begins to change when young people start to shift into adolescence. Their attitudes towards authority figures in general begin to change. Once a young person gets into grade 7-high school attitudes towards authority figures begin to change teachers, parents, police, etc.
