SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Reform School, Restorative Justice

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Crime & criminal justice week 12 future crimes & policy. Parenting: parental responsiveness: extent of a parent being supportive/loving based on age & capability (more support = less delinquency, parental demandingness: demanding appropriate behaviour according to age/maturity. Too much or too little demand = delinquency. Types of family: authoritative: assertive; discipline methods are non-intrusive & still supportive; discuss appropriate behaviour, authoritarian: obedience valued above all else, physical punishment used, produces aggressiveness in children c) Indulgent: supportive, but not at all demanding gives child room for self-regulatn. Models of juvenile justice: crime control model: - responsibility of state to maintain order; crime not tolerated, protect the public, by punishing criminals (conservative appr. ) When a person is harmed someone is responsible for that victim emphasis on harmed/broken relationship & making up for it (ex. someone who broke a window should fix it/pay for it to be fixed) Sentences: fine, place in foster care, children"s aid society, probation, reform school.