SOC310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Youth Criminal Justice Act, School Violence, Juvenile Delinquency
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Chapter 1: introduction- toward understanding youth and crime. Media reporting crimes that involve young offenders; portraying the negatives more than the positives. Case of barb danelesko- media representation of youth violence (evidence of today"s youth as out of control); 1999 murder case that found sonny head (second-degree murder) and david lorocque (manslaughter) guilty in adult court. Three years maximum imprisonment for manslaughter under young offenders act (yoa) Public reaction to have more punitive interventions. **appeared that youth as a group were out of control and couldn"t be held accountable under yoa and new legislation was needed. Belief that severe methods of punishment will reduce youth crime and violence. **the most significant shifts concerning youth crime been in way that problems have been constructed and responded to rather than youth behavior itself** (pg. The way social problem is defined has implications on how individuals, groups, and social institutions react and respond to it.
