SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Delinquency, Mixed-Excitation Linear Prediction

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Welfare model: needs of youth and family must be attended to, youth behaviour determined by social and psychological forces, evaluation of whole youth and life circumstances, individual treatment plan for rehabilitation. Discretion and power granted to experts : adolescents can be shown how to change aspects of their lives that can lead to criminal behaviour, equal balance between rights of society for protection and rights of individual. Justice model offender to fair treatment: youth behaviour result of free will, youth responsible for action. Punishment based on infraction: focus on formal system but compensates for age offender"s rights. Crime control model: primary concern is maintaining social order, youth behaviour result of free will. Led to theft assault, brawls, and murder: the capacity to do no wrong. Immune from prosecution unless it could be established that they could understand consequences: doli incapax not applied uniformly.