SOC310H5 Chapter Notes -Youth Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Delinquency, Urban Legend
Document Summary
Young offenders act (yoa): old law governing youth crime. It was widely held that youth were out of control and that they could not be held accountable under the yoa and that new justice legislation was required. It was that problems were being constructed and being responded to. Youth criminal justice act (ycja): current law governing youth crime. Includes those in mid-twenties who are serving youth sentences. Practices of governance: what is done in response to youth crime. Rationalities of governance: why it is done. Social conditions: cultural, historical, political and social context: our view of praxis. Marxian praxis: knowledge shouldn"t simply exist for its own sake but should be used for social transformation. Our view of praxis is not simply tied to social change. Social justice praxis (critical approach): aimed at addressing the systemic conditions of marginalization, exclusion and social inequality that lead the involvement of youth crime in the first place.
