PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Young Offenders Act, Juvenile Court
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Plan for today: history and philosophy of youth justice, young offenders, childhood disorders, treatment (it would be better to be preventative than to treat afterwards) Diversion: instead of prosecution, sentences to an educational program, sentenced to treatment, community services programs. Gave impression that children were getting away with crimes without punishment, especially with high prevalence of gangs ex. 12-(cid:1005)(cid:1008) yea(cid:396) olds did all the di(cid:396)ty (cid:449)o(cid:396)k fo(cid:396) the highe(cid:396) up ga(cid:374)g (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396)s, they k(cid:374)e(cid:449) they"d get less punishment, these children were highly compensated for going to jail for their crime, take (cid:272)a(cid:396)e of thei(cid:396) fa(cid:373)ily. A(cid:374)d they (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else fo(cid:396) it if a (cid:272)hild pleads guilty. (cid:862)li(cid:271)e(cid:396)als let (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)e (cid:271)y youth go u(cid:374)pu(cid:374)ished(cid:863) common thing for politicians to say. Absolute discharge (guilty verdict) sealed records once you become an adult, not allowed to be used as a discriminatory factor in their adulthood.
