CRI210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Peer Victimization, Bullying, Relational Aggression

• School: UTSG
• Department: Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
• Course: CRI210H1

Document Summary

Young people doing time: consequences of custody for young offenders. Little research on how young women experience & adjust to custody. Small number w/in custodial institutions under studied population. Lack of understanding about experiences reluctance of staff to work w/ girls. Perception that girls are complex & demanding. Share similar backgrounds & difficulties in adjusting to custody as boys. Incarceration 1st significant period spent away from family, friends, home community. Increase disengagement from family, pro social peers, familial/social values critical stage of development. Removed from local schools affect youth already w/ little commitment to school. Risk for reoffending, delinquency, other problem behaviours. Less able to cope w/ stress of imprisonment higher levels of anxiety. Custody high among traumatic lifetime stressors for young people. Youth"s violence in prison impulsive reaction to stress, immature coping ability. Adolescence challenges physical, intellectual, emotional, social development. Establishing stable integrated identity central task of adolescent development. Neg impact of onerous & highly restrictive institutional environment.