Lecture 4: Keeping Youth Under Control Flashcards
Discourse
Verbal, written, and recorded speech.
Discourse is often defined as verbal, written, and recorded speech. However, what other factors play a part in discourse?
- Speech patterns, diction, dialect, and colloquialisms.
- Unacceptable words and phrases.
- Denotation and connotation of words.
Differences in ___ ___, ___, ___, and ___ can lead to language, words, and expressions that are meaningful to some people but meaningless to others.
Speech patterns, diction, dialect, colloquialisms.
Give an example of how unacceptable words and phrases affect discourse.
Gender consciousness is coming. Using Ms. instead of Mrs. or Miss..
Denotation
Dictionary definition.
Connotation
Underlying definition.
Discourse specifics how you ___ an issue.
Approach.
Discourse is intelligible to…
A specific audience.
Can discourse portray ideology?
Yes.
True or false? The types of deviance that bring youths to the CJS is ever changing.
False, there has been little change.
How youth deviant acts are ___ has changed.
Understood.
Give an example of how the understanding of youth deviant acts have chanted.
What constitutes bullying has changed.
What are the two discourses on youth as a problem?
- The Reformable Offender.
2. The Punishable Young Offender.
The Reformable Offender
A discourse on youth that is based on 19th and 20th Century working class male youths.
The Punishable Young Offender
A discourse on youth that is based on the idea that present-day youths are in need of discipline.
What is the prevailing discourse at this age?
The punishable young offender.
What are the 4 groups of young offenders that are deemed to be punishable?
- Violent youth.
- Squeegee kids.
- Aboriginal youth.
- Female offenders.
How do discourses of youth and crime contribute to the theoretical underpinnings of various responses to youth crime? Give an example to illustrate.
If we view them as deserving more punishment, it influences the laws we create.
Sociological Imagination
Link between an individual’s biography and the life of the society.
Policies and laws are influenced by how we ___ to a social problem.
Respond.
What are the two broad paradigms in explaining crime?
- The consensus approach.
2. The conflict approach.
The Consensus Approach
We have reached agreement on how we want to be governed.
The Conflict Approach
Sees society as rich vs. poor, bourgeoisie vs. proletariat, etc..
The feminist approach and critique of mainstream criminology looks at…
Androcentric research and the concept of “criminalized women.”