SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Parens Patriae, Juvenile Delinquency
9 Nov 2016
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Week 4: legal responses to youth crime: the jda and yoa: historically, two idea emerge from the cycle Think that if you change the policy then you will change the behaviour of people. Ideas of juvenile delinquency: the behavioural component. Kelso and w. l scott, they drafted the jda. Rise of the child savers movement, people were not thinking of overly harsh punishments. Was built on the premise of parens patriae . *state intervenes and acts as a parent, looks for the best interest of the child. Court was supposed to resemble a rm and stern father. Delinquents subject to status offences (not criminal acts, were only crimes related to the age of the person i. e sexual immorality, truancy) Jda takes a welfare model of justice. Problem is that the courts were given a lot of discretion, sentences could be very discriminatory in nature. Had training schools were reform schools, but a lot of physical abuse took place here.
