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Title: | Discord and Ambiguity Within Youth Crime and Justice Debates |
Authors: | Adorjan, Michael C. |
Advisor: | Pawluch, Dorothy |
Department: | Sociology |
Keywords: | youth crime;justice;Canada;culpability of young offenders;severity of youth crime;social context;solution;advocacy |
Publication Date: | Sep-2009 |
Abstract: | This dissertation traces debates about youth crime and justice in Canada. On a substantive level, I ask how the social problem of youth crime and justice is constructed, focusing specifically on debates over the culpability of young offenders. I also examine debates over the degree and severity of youth crime and connect the divergent positions on this question to how young offenders are conceptualized. Related to these debates, I examine the search for solutions to youth crime. I argue that positions regarding how to address youth crime are rendered ambiguous given the creation of a hybridized youth justice context which combines various competing goals. On a theoretical level, I explore the relationship between how formulations of "deviant identities" (in this case "young offenders") are related to other areas of advocacy over a social problem. I explore the dynamics of a social problem debate which persists without resolution over an extended period of time. I also address the ways in which social context impacts upon claims made over a social problem. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17181 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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