Sociology 2267A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Young Offenders Act, School Violence

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2267A/B
• Professor: Lisa Lyons

Document Summary

The rise and fall of delinquency: pre-confederation period children treated the same as adults, victorian period behavior of children an area of concern, post-victorian youth separated from adults to prevent lifestyle criminals. The public issue: discourse: how things are talked about and understood, bother orally, written, including formally (theory, reports, books, media), conversations, headlines continuously warn serious crime problem if youth crime not curbed (youth in general, girls, school violence) ***scan federal party platforms on young offenders table 1. 1*** The good old days: young people have always been responsibly for less crime than adults, most involve property crime, history of youth crime not as readily available as it is today, not kept in same manner. In early european settlement, crime info recorded in reports of colonial administrators, age of prisoners not always recorded: no consistent prison records until 1835, the year of kingston pen (first.