CRIM 3657 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Juvenile Delinquency, Risk Society, Moral Panic
17 Feb 2017
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Youth crime: a socially constructed problem that labels the misbehaviour and law violations of young people. Discourse and practice are interrelated such that how the problem of youth crime and youthful offenders is understood has implications for responses to it. Violence: a complex nuanced and multifaceted phenomenon without an agreed-upon concise and all-encompassing definition. Violence is socially constructed, rational, and a censure. Our working definition of violence is a social and moral censure of aggressive actions that we find repulsive. Popular consciousness: ways of thinking and speaking about youth crime, comprised largely of media and public discourses. Practices of governance: what is done as a response to youth crime. Rationalizes of governance: why certain governance practices are employed (what policies, programs, or processes are justified). Young offenders act (yoa): the legislation that replaced the juvenile delinquents act in 1984 and governed youthful offenders aged 12-17 until 2003 when the youth criminal justice act came into effect.
