CC200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Juvenile Delinquency, Uniform Crime Reports, Longitudinal Study
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Cc-200-a lecture 1, september 9th (text) youth offenders and youth justice. Crime sells, midterms chapter 1-6 chapter 1: media and the politics of youth crime: youth crime has generated considerable public concern and discussion. Violence is discussed in media accounts as indicative of all youth crime. 1) youth advocate: focus on the problems that create young offenders. 2) law-and-order group: focus is on how youth criminals are portrayed as an enemy of society history of youth crime. Shows that youth in the past were also described in negative terms. Historian shows root causes to be parents of youth (overindulgent parents) The fur trade: problem if inheritance led youth to the trade, which was a profession wrought with illegal practices. Immigration: promises of the new world often did not materialize, leaving youth alone and impoverished. By the mid 1800"s, the poor were targeted for allegations of immortality. New urban problems: illiteracy, sex trade, addictions, poverty, juvenile delinquency.
