ADMJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deskilling
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Reduced access to benefits & social programs. Third-party effects: for families and communities imprisonment must be regarded as punishment rather than a means of "rehabilitating" prisoners". Must view the youth justice" system and its institutions that respond to youth crime in particular historical and economic contexts. How the social construction of the concepts of youth", adolescence" and childhood". Has implications for how we respond/manage youth crime. As cunneen, white and richards (2013) note, the following factors are commonly attributed to the emergence of youth justice: The loss of power of traditional mechanism of social control e. g the church. Urbanisation (led to the creation of the urban working class) Within australia, the introduction of mechanisms to control indigenous. Industrialisation (reduced the need for child labour) populations. In the late 19th century, we begin to see that the distinctive boundaries between child" and adult" form. The introduction of reformatory schools (youth detention centres), which housed young people convicted of criminal offences.
