Youth justice and the new street urchins in Canada
Subtitle: an historical analysis of youth justice legislation in Canada
By: Kathy Powelson
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Saarbrücken, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9783639013894
Subjects: Juvenile delinquents; Legal status, laws; Street youth; Homeless youth; Canada; Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada)
Description: "Over the last ten years, the number of street youth in Canadian cities has increased significantly. Concerns have been raised about how best to manage this group, many of whom are homeless, drug-addicted, HIV-infected, and/or involved in the sex trade. It has fallen to provincial governments to respond with new legislation and policy to regulate these "new street urchins," and the provincial statutes are similar, in many respects, to legislation linked with child-saving reforms at the beginning of the 20th Century. Ironically, this old legislation was introduced to deal with a comparable group of troublesome, urban, "street urchins." The work of Cohen (1985) and especially his notions of patterns of social control are used to explain the unintended consequences of reforms that began in the 1960s, and that have resulted in the new provincial youth control legislation"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Reissue of the 2005 thesis of Kathy Powelson.

M.A. Simon Fraser University 2005

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Early 20th century youth justice in context: Setting the stage ; J.J. Kelso and W.L. Scott : Canada's child savers ; The Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1908 ; Early 20th century British Columbia; title: Destructuring and deinstitutionalization : the replacement of the Juvenile Delinquents Act; title: The new "street urchins" : the 'problem' of children and youth at the end of the 20th century : The new "street urchins" ; The new "street urchins" : drugs and the AIDS epidemic ; The new "street urchins" : drugs & the sex trade ; An era of government cutbacks : a new way of "doing business" ; The government response : changes in the social control of youth ; Youth violence ; The Youth Criminal Justice Act ; An increasingly punitive approach ; Why have reform attempts failed?; title: Implications and future research directions in youth social control measures: Implications ; Recommendations for future research.