SOC310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Juvenile Delinquency, School Violence, Intersectionality
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Intersectionality of youth justice: schools, peers, gangs. Intersectionality: potter: has roots in indigenous and black women"s experience, recognizes the multiplicity of identity. Hankivsky (2014: intersectionality promotes an understanding of human beings as shaped by the interaction of different social locations (e. g. race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration status, religion). Power and privilege can be experienced simultaneously: human lives cannot be explained by taking into account single categories, such as gender, race, and socio-economic status. For white boys and boys of other ethnicities, there is no such overrepresentation: when it comes to girls, only aboriginal girls are overrepresented. Their jail admissions population is 10 times higher than what they represent in the general ontario population of young girls : the toronto star. 1: the ycjs operates against a backdrop of social inequality and powerful discourses of risk and governance, the socio-political climate (institutions, discourses, practices) of youthful offending and victimization is volatile.
