Chapter 4 - the Social Face of Youth Crime Flashcards
A concept that allows for an understanding of racism that goes beyond overt expressions and discriminatory actions of individuals.
Racialize/Racialized
A research method that involves richly detailed descriptions and classifications of a group of people or behaviours.
Ethnographic Method
A research method in which data on a group of people are collected over a number of time periods, rather than at only one point in their lives.
Longitudinal Study
A socially constructed category based on beliefs about biological differences between groups of people that have no basis in scientific evidence.
Race
A persons group of origin, where origin is usually thought of in terms of ancestral location and/or elements of culture (language, style of dress, behavioural patterns, social customs).
Ethnicity
Similar to social class, but specifically refers to a person’s social standing or position in terms of education, occupation, and income.
Socio-Economic Status
Compared with the term Aboriginal, this term has clear political connotations because it defines a group in historically specific terms. It means the first people who were a nation (a people with legal and political standing).
First Nations
The socially constructed aspects of a person’s biological sex.
Gender
A group of people born in the same time period.
Birth Cohort
Programs designed to help overcome a weakness, as opposed to correct a problem.
Remedial Solutions
The theory that when children witness or experience violence, they are more likely to experience or initiate violence as they get older.
Cycle of Violence
Refers to children who have experienced a number of victimizations and who exhibit traumatic symptomology.
Polyvictimization
19th century term for the children of the poor
Street Arabs
CCJS
Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
