CRIM 3657 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Juvenile Delinquency, Treatment And Control Groups, Unintended Consequences
19 Feb 2016
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Yoa: kent, gault, principles, revisions criticisms, models of juvenile justice. Normalize adolescents as dependent on people: imposing middle class values. Subject to arbitrary punishment: status offences, adolescents being too adult like, labelling them dependent and delinquent, the state as being the parent, meant that people could be subjected to indeterminate punishment for an indeterminate amount of time. They used the jda to commit their own children and put them under state care. Situate platt 1960s/1970s history: take this account there is progress, but there are also problems, growing disillusionment with rehabilitative ideal. Dealth with: physically by removing them, from spaces, work, competitions in the legal market, etc. think about the separate justice system or compulsory education the emergence of mandatory education is physically removing people from plaes, and/or discursively. Randomly assigned took two kids and made one of them get additional. It is quite extensive support, wheras the other one does not.
