Transcript Juvenile Justice in America

Juvenile Justice in
America
SOC 106
Part 6-1: The Delinquent
1.
The delinquent
- normal / deviant / defective / disabled
a. System overloaded
- normal delinquent
(1) All delinquents
- not normal
- not true
(a) Robbery / burglary / theft
- not mentally / physically ill
- not deviant
(2) Trouble with “not normal”
- designed for normal
(a) Pose threat to mental / physical
- cannot mix
(b) Police
- not get involved
- defective youth commits crime
- no detention
- no CPS
- released home
(3) Mentally retarded at home
- abusive
(a) Civil or criminal
- doctor’s care
- not commit
- no psych unit
(4) Court involvement
- not mentally capable
- hold in detention
- services not available
(a) Sentenced to state
- special school / institution
(b) Rainier School
- Buckley
b. Deviant delinquents
- turn aside from a norm
- stray from a standard / principle
- go against accepted behavior
- set by society
(1) Deviate from norm
- criminal / non-criminal
(a) Criminal
- drug abuser / pimp / prostitute
- abnormal?
(b) Non-criminal
- punker / skinhead / alcoholic
(2) Once applied
- deviant label hard to erase
(a) Prior addicts
- still associate
(b) Deviancy
- defined by society
- in which it exists
(c) People change / attitudes change
- more accepted
- belief of deviancy also changes
c. Defective delinquents
- intellectual / emotional deficiency
- tendency to commit crimes
(1) Mentally / emotionally ill
(a) Attention of police
- bizarre behavior
- self-destructive
- withdrawn (autistic)
(2) Causes:
- early development
(a) Socioeconomic
- conditions nurture delinquency
- poverty / family isolation
(b) Poor diet / brain damage / lead
poisoning
(c) Failure to thrive
- parent-child relations
(d) Autism / abuse / child-rearing
practices
(e) Life crisis
- accidents / trauma
(3) Causes:
- later development
(a) Large families / broken families
(b) Poor housing / little education / low
income / unemployment / poverty
(c) Poor physical / mental health
(4) Process of courts
- not guilty by reason of insanity
- unsound mind
- not know right from wrong
(a) Treatment programs
- handle defective
(b) Sexual offender / violent offender
d. Disabled delinquent
- physical disabilities
- paraplegic / cerebral palsy / seizures / aids
- other injuries to confine actions
(1) “Children with special needs”
- increasing numbers
- problems for system
(a) Not prepared:
- attention deficit
- hyperactive
- learning disabilities
(2) “Children at risk”
-
immigrant
adopted
divorced parents
incarcerated parents
children on drugs
teen pregnancy