JST212 Juvenile Justice in context (8)

Abstract

This subject provides a critical perspective on the social, political and legal context of juvenile justice policy and administration. It considers myths and facts about young people and crime, with reference to media and research. Other foci are the historical emergence of competing ideologies of juvenile crime and the continuum of legal, policy and program responses. Welfare, justice and republican paradigms adopted in western jurisdictions are considered, along with key theories and research that have informed their adoption in western jurisdictions.

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Session 1
Distance	Bathurst Campus

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Subject information

Duration	Grading System	School:
One session	HD/FL	School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to demonstrate the ability to distinguish shifts in ideology in the course of the historical emergence of a separate system of justice for juveniles in western jurisdictions;
- be able to demonstrate the ability to access and critique community perceptions of youth and crime as evidenced, for example in the media;
- be able to demonstrate the ability to access and interpret research that can describe juvenile offending and offenders;
- be able to demonstrate the ability to apply theory grounded in research to explain causes of, and responses to, juvenile offending;
- be able to demonstrate the ability to explain how welfare, justice and republican paradigms are systemically implemented;
- be able to demonstrate the ability to critically examine the contributions of key players in juvenile justice policy to official responses to juvenile crime;
- be able to demonstrate the ability to critically examine the contribution of key players in juvenile justice administration to juvenile justice decisions and outcomes for individual juveniles and their community; and
- be able to demonstrate the ability to identify the contribution of key treaties and laws that aim to influence decision makers in protecting the rights of young people and the community.

Syllabus

The subject will cover the following topics:
- historical emergence of youth as a separate social group and juvenile justice as a separate system of justice - the media and contemporary social constructions of youth and crime - sources of research information on juvenile offenders and offending - criminological theories of social interactionism, social strain and social control - welfare, justice and republican models of juvenile justice, and the continuum of policy and program responses to juvenile crime - juvenile justice administration - community, police, courts, corrections, policy - sources of youth rights and victim rights, international treaties and laws

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