SOC310H5 Chapter Notes -Risk Society, Governmentality, Neoliberalism
Document Summary
Chapter 2: practices of governance and control theoretical underpinnings. Issues of control and order lay at the center of youth and crime. Two discourses: advocates consider youth vulnerable and in need of assistance and protection. They identified certain youth groups as problematic and called thus created reformable young offender: one who required intervention and could be rehabilitated. Today these advocates are concerned with prostitution: other discourses consider youth in need of discipline and punishment. Today this is pervasive for especially violent youth, squeegee kids, Canada 1990s saw youth as out of control and violent. The public demanded a law and order agenda that called for more punitive measures: concept of punishable young offender: unlike the reformable young offender, requires punishment first and foremost, leaving reform and rehabilitative interventions as secondary measures. Intrusive punishment discourses: holds that young people are accountable for their criminal actions and applies more punitive sanctions.
