CRJU 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Truancy, Spree Killer, Industrial Revolution
5 Apr 2016
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Treating adolescence as a distinct stage before adulthood is a new concept. Figuring out a way to respond to the offending of people who are not children, but not yet adults. Very young children were seen as helpless and dependent on adults: generally exempt from the justice system and their actions, until the age of 7. Once children were able to help out around the household, they became responsible: children over the age of 7 were thought to know right from wrong. And therefor be responsible for their actions. Adulthood is typically reached at the time of puberty: 14 females, 15/16 males, puberty meant that you were now expected to work/get married (cid:3) Children made for great workers in factories: wealthy middle class women took up the issue of protecting children. Law were then passed to prevent child labor. School: children were then sent to schools instead of factories. Basically to prepare to work in factories once they were (cid:3)
