PSY344H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Family Therapy, Parenting Styles, Frontal Lobe
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Youth who committed criminal acts in canada during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries were treated as adult offenders. Open placing the youth in a community residential facility, group home, child- care facility, or wilderness camp. Secure incarcerating the youth in a prison facility: criticisms of yoa: serious, violent offences carried relatively short ( light ) sentences, and raising the minimum age of responsible from age 7 to age 12. On april 1, 2003, the youth criminal justice act (ycja) replaced the yoa. Main objective: to prevent youth crime, to provide meaningful consequences and encourage responsibility of behaviour, to improve rehabilitation and reintegration of youth into the community. Extrajudicial: term applied to measures taken to keep young offenders out of court and out of custody (i. e. , giving a warning or making a referral for treatment) A new custodial sentence became available under the ycja, known as the intensive.