SOC310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Young Offenders Act
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Slide: until someone listens (1998) - recovering from institutional abuse: skyworks- laura sky, the ontario training school for girls was opened in cambridge (then. 13 when parents sent her there sentence was indeterminate and was released at the discretion of the training school staff her experience with racism and discrimination was prior to entering. Slide: young offenders act (1984: jda delinquents the jda uses this language of delinquent to reflect categories of, yoa neglected children and those young people that are in conduct that we don"t necessarily want them engaged in, Slide: more revisions: 1995- 10 years for youth convicted of murder, automatic transfer to adult court for phase to yo"s for personal injury, so the yoa became more punitive over time. Slide: under the yoa: high incarceration rates, offenders that commit serious crimes were not more likely to be held in. Very disproportionate persistent offenders: those who were denied bail: persistent petty offender, b/w ages of 14-17, low income,
