CRJ 404 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Century Media Records, Truancy, Wage Labour

• School: ASU
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJ 404
• Professor: Brooks Robbin

Document Summary

Ideas about youth and misbehavior, and what to do about youth and misbehavior, change over time. Difficult to generalize because they are socially constructed differently in different places and cultures around the world (feld, 1999). Notion of adolescence did not always exist it was created in light of social and economic changes that necessitated a new, more extended, experience of childhood. The concept of juvenile delinquency emerged out of a particular western vision of what it is to be a kid or young adult. Systems of justice were developed to address the special needs of youth labeled as. Popular ideas about youth and their behaviors have been shaped by raced, classed, and gendered biases and concerns. The first juvenile court in the u. s. in 1899. Youth were treated as the property of their fathers, corporal punishment was common, and youth were often beaten harshly. Very little distinction made between human beings based upon age.