4 - Historical Perspectives On Juvenile Crime Governance

Question 0

The birth of the Children’s Court

Answer 0

An extra legal dimension - children being seen as being in development, age as a mitigating factor.

Contamination - assumption that children’s proximity to adult offenders would overexpose them to a ‘penal identification’(a life of crime)

Question 1

The Neglected Children and Young Offenders Act 1905

Answer 1

Established the Children’s Court
Concerned with both care and control
Rehabilitative objective

Question 2

Penal welfarism

Answer 2

Welfare (assistance) and justice (punishment)

Question 3

Colonialism & bio-politics

Answer 3

Imperialism
Colonisation
Dominion
Bio-power (administration of life not death and the distribution of the population across space and territory, and the health, prosperity and the future of the social body.

Question 4

The bio-politics of colonisation: deficit discourses & normalisation

Answer 4

Deficit discourses provide the relevant authorities with cultural and psychological constructions of abnormality.