PSY328H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Juvenile Delinquency, Judicial Discretion, Property Crime
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Psychology and the law lecture 7 juvenile offenders: youth crime rates: Youths are disproportionately engaged in criminal activity. Volumes and severity of youth crime has declined. Except for one type: drug related offences, i. e. possession of marijuana. 17 years of age, another evident trend is crime rate is at a steady decline with age: types of youth crime: Types of crimes that cohorts of people commit are different. Young offender"s crimes were relatively minor i. e. mischievous crimes i. e. Young offender"s crimes were relatively minor i. e. mischievous crimes i. e. property vandalism. Property crime, and other offences i. e. parole breaches: young offenders law-early days: Until early 20th century youth were treated like adults when they committed an offence. Youth delinquency saw as disease of deviance such as bad parenting, evils of society i. e. peer pressure. Attitudes and beliefs about young offenders changed beginning in the early 1900s. Applied to youth 7-16 (sometimes 18) years of age.
