SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Defense Of Infancy, Youth Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Delinquency
20 Mar 2013
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Youth and the law: history of youth law in canada. There is an omission of next week"s reading is cancelled no discussion on human rights. Instead, we will be talking about the carol smart and making space for. The following week (apr. 2) will be an exam review. Ycja + preamble: this afternoon we will talk about the framework of the legal treatment of youth, there will be an emphasis on canada rather than the us, and how childhood has been generally constructed. Specifically, we want to look at the child movement: this was a conservative movement of the 19th century lead by middle- upper class women, it was designed to impose particular sanctions unbecoming to youth. They were unified in a belief that young people needed to be supervised. Prior to the child-saving movement kids were seen as miniature adults, and there was no special treatment because there was nothing particularly special or unique about childhood.
