CRIM 3657 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Helen Betty Osborne, Toronto Police Service, Eugenics
4 Apr 2017
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Myth surrounding the youth justice system: youth crime is caused largely by the law that governs the way we, as a society, respond to it. One of the most important challenges for youth justice in canada is to differentiate youth justice" issues from. They are separate phenomena, and for the most part one does not address the problem of. Youth crime" by way of the youth justice system. You could actually differentiate among three phenomena: youth crime, as it exists in our community, the youth justice system, and how it responds to those youth who are apprehended for offending, the causes of youth crime. Focus more on the first two (in this particular book) because there is more misunderstanding about them. Views that simple criminal justice" changes will solve the problems of youth crime are certainly wrong. Approaches to addressing youth crime that appear to make sense largely lie outside the youth justice system.
