SOC310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Mens Rea, Interlocking, Defense Of Infancy
Document Summary
Ch 1: introduction toward understanding youth and crime. The most significant shifts concerning youth crime have been in the way that problems have been constructed and responded to, rather than in youth behaviour itself. Discourses about youth crime dictate its governance through various youth justice practices: the main issue to be addressed is not youth crime per se, but the relationships between youth, crime, and society. The youth criminal justice act (ycja) and its predecessors, the yoa, define youth as individuals between the ages of 12 and 17. This book"s praxis is one of social justice. Social justice praxis is aimed at addressing the systemic conditions of marginalization, exclusion, and social inequality that lead to the involvement of youth in crime in the first place. Hogeveen and woolford (2006) and the praxis of possibility argues that our task is to attend to the suffering of those about us and to open up worlds of the possible beyond human misery .
