SOC310H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Court, Juvenile Delinquency

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25 Nov 2013
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The youth criminal justice act and its predecessor, the yoa, define youth as individuals between the age of 12 and 17. Practices of governance (what is done in response to youth crime) and rationalities of governance (why it is done). Social conditions should not obscure the cultural, historical, political, and social context under which youth make choices: conditions include but not limited to age, race, class, and gender inequalities. Scholars have adopted the marxian praxis that knowledge should simply exist for its own sake but should be used for social transformation. Social justice praxis is aimed at addressing the systematic conditions of marginalization, exclusion, and social inequality that lead to the involvement of youth in crime in the first place. Praxis of possibility: our task is to attend to the suffering of those about us and to open up the worlds of the possible beyond human misery.