Sociology 2267A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Delinquency, The Young Offenders
30 Dec 2020
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Sociology 2267 (650), week 1: lesson 1 - Identify factors linked to changes in early juvenile delinquency and to more recent youth criminal justice legislation in canada: understand the role of historical and comparative research in helping to explain contemporary trends in youth justice in canada. Introduction: the three different legislative regimes that have evolved for administering juvenile justice in canada: The youth criminal justice act (ycja) of 2002. Juvenile delinquency: the legal term, which came into popular use in the nineteenth century to describe violations of the law by persons who had not reached the legal age of adulthood. Western countries have become more punishment oriented, with longer prison sentences and higher rates of incarceration. First historian to propose an argument explaining how children were viewed and treated by adults in earlier times and how this has changed over time. Claimed the modern concept of childhood was "discovered" in western europe in the seventeenth century.
