PSY344H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Fetus, Conduct Disorder, Protective Factor
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Chapter 12- assessment and treatment of young offenders. Adolescents (over the age of 12 and under the age of 18) who come into contact with the criminal justice system pose several challenges to the adult-based system; Legislation has changed over the years in an attempt to address the special needs of adolescents; Anyone under the age of 12 who engages in criminal acts is processed through family and social service agencies, usually under provincial or territorial legislation. Youth who committed criminal acts in canada during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were treated as adult offenders; the criminal justice system made no accommodations or considerations for how youth were charged, sentenced or incarcerated; Canada enacted the juvenile delinquents act (jda) in 1908 applied to children and youth between the ages of 7 and 16 (up till 18 in some jurisdictions) Youth were called delinquents rather than offenders, and were considered to commit acts of delinquency rather than criminal offences;
