SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Punk Subculture, Edwin Sutherland, Falsifiability
Document Summary
Delinquency vs. crime: committed by youths vs. committed by adults, assumed to be temporary vs. permanent, status offences offences because they are young. Underage drinking: status offence: its an offence because you"re a minor, excusable vs. inexcusable, sometimes the line is blurred. Example// blurring the lines: trial as an adult: crime handled by a different system. Youth justice system: tolerance and need to disconnect juvenile offence from adult life, protection of information if the crime is too serious (or if it attacks certain values) . New form of violent/ organized crime in youth gang leads to the need of development of subcultural theories. The ideas that sean mckay and robert park were seeing how youth were living their lives and how their youthful delinquency becomes adult crimes. Advantages: does not assume deviance is unique, explain a large range of deviant acts, can go from stealing a car to vandalism.
