1.How does the Juvenile Justice system (or the Education System) define the 'norm' for mainstream youth? What does its treatment of young people (as opposed to its treatment of adults) say about our society's concepts of youth?
We live in a society in which the 'norm' is enforced by respected professions such as education and the law. This forms cultural knowledge and a perception of subjects such as young people which may not always be fair observations yet the fault does not merely lie in these professions. This assignment will aim to formulate how expectations of the behavior of young people have come to pass and have thus been fostered by institutions such as the Juvenile Justice system. ... Showed first 120 words of 1511 Size (words) ...
... Continuing with another 115 out of 1511 Size (words) ...not already, grow into a great hazard and should be treated as if they had created an 'adult crime' (Funk & Polsby, 1997)
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