SOC310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Patriation, Interlocking, Deinstitutionalisation
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Responding to youth crime: historical origins of juvenile justice legislation. Informal mechanisms of social control and custody laws, sometimes referred to as legal pluralism, continued to operate during the shift in juvenile justice. It includes such forms of social control such as shaming. Informal governance exert control over youthful deviants at a distance: a social constructionist perspective holds that juvenile delinquency becomes a problem whe(cid:374) it"s defi(cid:374)ed as su(cid:272)h (cid:271)y so(cid:272)ial (cid:396)efo(cid:396)(cid:373)e(cid:396)s. Generalized justice: classical legal governance: the easiest form of youth regulation can be considered classical legal governments and it made very little distinction between young and adult offenders. Ages 7 to 14 were thought to possess a diminished ability to appreciate the implications of the behavior. They were assuming to be doli incapax unless the crown could prove otherwise, mens rea, and they could not be legally convicted.
