HREQ 1800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Juvenile Delinquency, Social Control

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Livy Visano

Document Summary

Normative emphasis on delinquency as resistance suffers from conceptual identity weaknesses regarding operationalized respectively as being, behaviour and beliefs respectively. institutions and the interplay of ideology, The study of resistance provides a bold set of insights into the competing and converging discourses that implicate political economy, history and materialist cultures. Resistance is already situated within a network of power relationships and thus resistive practices must make creative and adaptive use of the resources of the other. Resistance consists of expressions of subjectivity, autonomy and accountability. Social control can shape resistance, the defiance of normative and integrative efforts. Youth resistance is mediated through a variety of channels: school, family, work, media, etc. Crime is an expression of survival, individuality and independence and not necessarily an instance of resistance. Youth resistance has become a commodity that manipulated by the dominant culture. Resistance = identity + institutions + ideology.