PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Risk Assessment, Youth Detention Center
Document Summary
Developmental issues: juvenile offending: prior to the 19th century children and youth treated like adult offenders, binet created the iq test and influenced lawmakers to create the. Mental ages were taken into account: juvenile delinquents act (1908) recognized special circumstances of juvenile offenders, young offenders act (1984) juvenile offenders recognized as cognitively different from adults. Young criminal justice act (2003: objectives: prevention, responsibility for behaviour, rehabilitation and reintegration of youth, pendulum swings between extremes, getting closer and closer to the middle each time, extrajudicial remedies, expanded sentencing options. Trajectories of juvenile offenders: child-onset - behavioural problems start very early in childhood. Easy temperaments, difficult temperaments (mother attachment: adolescent-onset show behavioural problems in teen years, kids who are resistant to discipline tend to have a lack of sensitivity to pain. If they don"t feel pain, they don"t experience the negative consequences of listening to rules/warnings.
