SOC310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Young Offenders Act, Juvenile Delinquency, Youth Rights
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Lecture 4: connected to the idea that delinquency is a social problem and a social issue, beginning of rehabilitative philosophy purpose was individual rehabilitation, birth of a reformable juvenile delinquent. Informality indefinite sentencing: social factors shaped delinquency, they look like they need intervention, in poverty, recall the shifting image of the juvenile delinquent, for the best interests of youth. Insert chart: first there was legisliation that forced the jda to come in. Changing landscape: declaration of the rights of the child (1959, civil rights movements (charter of rights, changing public and political landscape, long process of reform. Young offenders act (1984: jda, delinquents, misdirected and misguided children, yoa, youth/ young offenders, state of dependency . Special needs and require guidance and assistance as well as supervision, discipline and control: there was still a strong rationale for a separate justice system. It"s hard to figure out to what level can these principles be applied.
