PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Young Offenders Act, Family Process, Frontal Lobe
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Lecture 7: developmental issues and juvenile offending (chapter 5) Prior to the 19th century children and youth treated like adult offenders. Juvenile delinquents act (1908) recognized special circumstances of juvenile offenders. Young offenders act (1984) juvenile offenders recognized as cognitively different from adults. Objectives: prevention, responsibility for behaviour, rehabilitation and reintegration of youth. Child-onset - behavioural problems start very early in childhood. Adolescent-onset show behavioural problems in teen years. Genetic and physiological differences between antisocial and non-antisocial youth. Children with an antisocial biological father more likely to be antisocial. Wadsworth (1976): antisocial youth have slower heart rates higher threshold for excitability and emotionality. Moffitt and henry (1989): less frontal lobe inhibition in antisocial youth impulsivity. Focus on thought process, interpretation of social and emotional cues and responses to them. Cognitive deficits and distortions; limited problem-solving skills in antisocial youth. Types of aggressive behaviour: reactive aggression and proactive aggression. Link between violent video exposure and aggressive behaviour.
