HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Juvenile Delinquency, Criminal Code (Canada), Childhood And Society
4 Apr 2016
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Idea that children needed protection beginning to take hold. 1886 = act passed regarding infant boarding homes . = basic premise was that education was needed to make people more humane. Proposed a bylaw licensing newsboys (it prohibited girls of any age and boys under eight). Because families needed the income children generated the law was vigorously opposed by parents (took 8 years for legislation to pass)! 1892: instituted children"s court (small room in the lower part of city hall). 1894 amendments to the criminal code of canada . = children younger than 16 kept in custody separate from adults (before and after trial). Concept that a juvenile delinquent should be treated not as a criminal" but as misdirected and misguided child meant legal training in those hearing the cases was discounted. Juvenile courts not established everywhere in the province. = patronizing attitude of legal profession toward the law affecting children and families.
