[CRM3312] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (19 pages long!)
6 Feb 2017
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The legal term, which came into popular use in the nineteenth century to describe violations of the law by persons who had not reached the legal age of adulthood. Specialized courts first created in the late nineteenth century to apply juvenile justice laws in the care of dependent and delinquent children. A term coined by brian horgeveen (2005) to describe the discursive construction of some young offenders as troublesome and therefore requiring punishment in order to make them accountable for their criminal acts. The argument that in recent decades the criminal justice systems of many western countries have become more punishment oriented, with longer prison sentences and higher rates of incarceration. Criminal justice system"s treatment of young people is determined by the understanding of childhood and how that understanding has changed over time. This is understood through the work of historians.
