SOC310H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Shoplifting, Compulsory Education, Governmentality
Document Summary
Lecture 1 reading (cid:498)governing young people: coherence and contradiction in contemporary youth. Placing less emphasis on social contexts, state protection and rehabilitation and more on prescriptions of individual responsibility, an active citizenry and governing at a distance. This can be characterized as the death of the social (death of the fact that govt is supplying crime control, now community is responsible too, decline in the role of the state) Draws attention to any crime control strategy that aims to make offenders face up to their own responsibilities or that encourages the private sector and communities to take a more active interest in reducing criminal opportunities. Directly involving non-state agencies and organizations in the prevention of crime in youth. Stresses the need to develop a connected, coherent, efficient and above all. It does not necessarily concern individual reform, training or punishment but implementing policies that work.
