CRJS 370-Athabasca
1. Bifurcated divided into two branches; forked
2. Child Savers Nineteenth-century reformers who developed programs for troubled youth and
influenced legislation creating the juvenile justice system; today some critics view
them as being more concerned with control of the poor than with their welfare.
3. Crime Control An orientation to criminal justice in which the protection of the community and the
Model of Crimi- apprehension of ottenders are paramount
nal Justice
4. Cycle of Juvenile refers to the tendency toward a never-ending cycle of juvenile justice reform
Justice common in western society
5. decontextualized not relying on the immediate context, or setting, to convey content
6. Demographics the characteristics of a population with respect to age, race, and gender.
7. denied adult- Refers to the notion that youth, because of their legal dependency in Western
hood society, are prevented from attaining the things that many adults take for granted,
such as the right to make decisions about their own lives and the right to express
their views
8. Limited account-
ability justice
model
9. Moral Panic The reaction by a group of people based on exaggerated or false perceptions
about crime and criminal behavior
10. official crime ottender and ottence data based on information collected for administrative pur-
poses by justice agencies, such as the police, courts, and correctional institutions
11. parens patriae power of the state to act on behalf of the child and provide care and protection
,CRJS 370-Athabasca
equivalent to that of a parent
, CRJS 370-Athabasca
12. Penal Populism Corrections policies that are formulated in pursuit of political objectives, often in
the absence of an informed public or in spite of public opinion
13. politics of youth The mechanisms and methods whereby youth activities are socially constructed as
crime criminal; the meanings and imagery attached to these definitions and the types
of responses they generate
14. Problematize a process whereby something, someone, or some group is defined as a problem
15. reformatory correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or
first ottenders
16. Reintegration A goal of corrections that focuses on preparing the ottender for a return to the
community unmarred by further criminal behavior.
17. Status offences actions prohibited only to minors.
acts that are considered illegal if committed by a person who has not attained
adult status
18. Principles of Re- avoid aggravation, timing, compliance, individualism, specific sequencing, inten-
habilitation sity, total patient
19. welfare based ju- a model of juvenile justice based on a rehabilitative philosophy
venile justice sys-
tem
20. youth crime Crime committed by 10-17 year olds
21. youth justice sys- ited
tem
22. adolescence-lim-
1. Bifurcated divided into two branches; forked
2. Child Savers Nineteenth-century reformers who developed programs for troubled youth and
influenced legislation creating the juvenile justice system; today some critics view
them as being more concerned with control of the poor than with their welfare.
3. Crime Control An orientation to criminal justice in which the protection of the community and the
Model of Crimi- apprehension of ottenders are paramount
nal Justice
4. Cycle of Juvenile refers to the tendency toward a never-ending cycle of juvenile justice reform
Justice common in western society
5. decontextualized not relying on the immediate context, or setting, to convey content
6. Demographics the characteristics of a population with respect to age, race, and gender.
7. denied adult- Refers to the notion that youth, because of their legal dependency in Western
hood society, are prevented from attaining the things that many adults take for granted,
such as the right to make decisions about their own lives and the right to express
their views
8. Limited account-
ability justice
model
9. Moral Panic The reaction by a group of people based on exaggerated or false perceptions
about crime and criminal behavior
10. official crime ottender and ottence data based on information collected for administrative pur-
poses by justice agencies, such as the police, courts, and correctional institutions
11. parens patriae power of the state to act on behalf of the child and provide care and protection
,CRJS 370-Athabasca
equivalent to that of a parent
, CRJS 370-Athabasca
12. Penal Populism Corrections policies that are formulated in pursuit of political objectives, often in
the absence of an informed public or in spite of public opinion
13. politics of youth The mechanisms and methods whereby youth activities are socially constructed as
crime criminal; the meanings and imagery attached to these definitions and the types
of responses they generate
14. Problematize a process whereby something, someone, or some group is defined as a problem
15. reformatory correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or
first ottenders
16. Reintegration A goal of corrections that focuses on preparing the ottender for a return to the
community unmarred by further criminal behavior.
17. Status offences actions prohibited only to minors.
acts that are considered illegal if committed by a person who has not attained
adult status
18. Principles of Re- avoid aggravation, timing, compliance, individualism, specific sequencing, inten-
habilitation sity, total patient
19. welfare based ju- a model of juvenile justice based on a rehabilitative philosophy
venile justice sys-
tem
20. youth crime Crime committed by 10-17 year olds
21. youth justice sys- ited
tem
22. adolescence-lim-
