HREQ 1800 Lecture 8: justice for children lecture notes

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: ramsarran

Document Summary

Any critical study of youth crime is a formidable inquiry into conformities and confrontations with conventional cultural narrative of coercion. This challenging enterprise requires an honest interrogation how one interests both the familiar and the foreign that is, how does one transform the familiar into the foreign and the foreign into the familiar. Informed by critical social and critical criminological theories, this study analyzes the construction of youth crime by examining the differential impact of layered carceral contexts of culture. Causation- control nexus, the dominant culture serves to mediate social relations thereby focusing attention away from fundamental injustices and inequalities. Instead, the dominant culture promotes the celebration of ego centric distortions such as individualism, possessiveness, materialism and the reproduction/consumption of narcissism. Further, cultural symbols contribute to the transformations of the prevailing imaginary, sentiments and emotions into significant inducements or dispositions to the exaggerated need for the regulation of youth.