SOCI 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Juvenile Delinquency, Pangs, Criminology

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 327
• Professor: Michael Adjoran

Document Summary

Moffitt(cid:859)s (cid:272)ategorizatio(cid:374) (terrie moffitt: adolescent limited offenders: antisocial behavior evident only during adolescence, life course persistent offenders: begin to engage in antisocial behavior in childhood and continue throughout adulthood. Many people are only one time offenders (1 incident) Sympathy for problems youth face, their own victimization. Public account exaggerates and misrepresent youth crime, with casuistic consequence: get tough on crime/law and order advocates. Advocate lock em up throw away the key responses. Youth crime is out control; severity of violence increasing. Juvenile super predators: book (cid:858)body cou(cid:374)t(cid:859) (cid:894)1996(cid:895) (cid:271)y be(cid:374)(cid:374)ett, dilulio & walters. Adi(cid:272)ally i(cid:373)pulsi(cid:448)e, (cid:271)rutally re(cid:373)orseless (cid:449)ho (cid:373)urder, assault, rape, rob and who do not fear the stigma of arrest, the pains of imprisonment or the pangs of conscience. Predicted increase of 270,000 juvenile super predators on the streets by 2010: media quotes. (cid:862)there are i(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:374)ti(cid:448)es to (cid:272)o(cid:373)e up (cid:449)ith dra(cid:373)ati(cid:272) (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)ers for sou(cid:374)d (cid:271)ites o(cid:374) the e(cid:448)e(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:374)e(cid:449)s(cid:863)