Sociology 2267A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Lack mens rea (guilty mind: homunculus, prior to 1908, means that kids aren"t thought of as children, but small beings, dressed same as adults, upper canada (on, opened its first prison at kingston in 1835 and. Juvenile courts: specialized courts to apply juvenile justice laws in the case of dependent and delinquent children. State takes over when parents cant/wont: young person detained until hearing (shelters/detention homes) Criminal youth: youth criminal justice system, a term often used today as a substitute for juvenile courts, argued that it indicates a shift toward treating young offenders more like adult offenders. Individual characteristics that you are born with (ascribed): impulsivity, low empathy, poor internalized norms. Measuring youth crime -youth deviance in the media. 1: how serious and common is it. Is the legislation too lenient: who is committing these criminal and/or deviant acts and why do they do it. Sources of measurement: official counts of social control, police, courts, corrections, unofficial sources.
