[Sociology 2267A/B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 25 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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Shift in language from considering young people in the justice system as (cid:498)misguided youth(cid:499) or (cid:498)juvenile delinquents(cid:499) to viewing them as (cid:498)criminal youth(cid:499) dealt with more formally. Competition of 2 discourses: first the discourse of reformable young offender in the 19th and 20th centuries to the punishable young offender since the. 1990s intervention in the hope they can be rehabilitated. Punishable young offender: a term coined by bryan hogeveen to describe the. Juvenile delinquency: the legal term that came into popular use in the nineteenth century to describe violations of the law by persons who had not reached the legal age of adulthood. Juvenile courts: specialized courts first created in the late nineteenth century to apply juvenile justice laws in the care of dependent and delinquent children. Youth criminal justice systems: a term often used today as a substitute for juvenile courts. Critical criminologists argue that it signifies a shift toward treating young offenders more like adult offenders.
