CRIM 3657 Chapter 12: CH 12 Conclusions Chapter Recap
11 May 2017
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Intro : the underlying assumption sit hat problems among youth are a reflection of problems within the community. Dicourses concering youth crime contintually circulate but how youth crime is defines and the disrouce thorugh which it is understoof have a powerful consequene for indiviuals, groups and social insitutions. Along with ways of constriucting offenders and their criminality come policies and processes that govern youth crime through regulation, management and control of criminalized youth. Media discourse is open to change so too are politiclal discourse that justify governance epractices that prioritize punishment over support, harm over healing and offence over offender. Disroucsres related to youth crime and justice are employed and shift in particular social donitions. The social structural conditions that fframe our lives include age race class gender inequality or privledges. Youth crime isny just a criminal justice issue but a social and political one as well.
