CRIM 3657 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
11 Feb 2017
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Everything gets wrapped up in these anti youth discourse. The ycja was a lot about protection through rehabilitation and reintegration. Added: the shift to the ycja was to get rid of deterrence. General deterrence does not work for young people. Still must be: all the other safe guards from the ycja are still there. Ycja was formulated on what we understood about the adolescent. Juveniles who received the miranda warning did not understand it well enough to waive their rights. Only 20% had an adequate knowledge of their miranda rights. Only 43% of adults had an adequate knowledge of their miranda rights. Over half of the youth did not have any understanding about what was being said to them. This (cid:449)as suggesti(cid:374)g that (cid:449)e had to prote(cid:272)t you(cid:374)g people"s rights. Decision-making ability: exercise poor maturity of judgement. They have a lack of perspective of the i(cid:373)pli(cid:272)atio(cid:374)s of their a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s. they do(cid:374)"t see the lo(cid:374)g-term consequences, only short-term.
