SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Juvenile Court, School Discipline, High School Dropouts

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

It can include poverty, gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. In toronto, more than 2000 youth are homeless on any given night. More than 50% of youth in toronto"s homeless shelters have mental health problems. At least 40% of homeless youth are lgbt. The reason for youth homelessness is usually because they"ve been kicked out by their family. Probably because of their mental health problems and/or sexual orientation as mentioned above. Especially likely to be victimized by petty criminals, sexual predators, and unreliable landlords. Homelessness has been increasing since the 1980s. Homelessness was an example of income exclusion; this is an example of social exclusion on the basis of race. A group of individuals with identifiable leadership claiming control over territory and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behaviour . Often depicted as a race problem: black in toronto, asian or south asian in vancouver, aboriginal in the prairies, etc.