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1
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Very early legistlation in Ontario having to do with child welfare.

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Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to and Better Protection of Children (The Children’s Charter) | 1893

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Remove something from its context.

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Decontextualize

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The basic or vital statistics of a group, usually factors such as age, sex, ethnicity, and marital status.

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Demographics

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Refers to the notion that youth, because of their legal dependency in Western 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.

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Denied Adulthood

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How things are talked about and understood, both orally and in written form, including formal talk, such as theory; professional talk, such as reports, books, and media; and conversations.

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Discourse

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Early Legistlation aimed at Young Offenders in Canada.

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Juvenile Delinqents Act | 1908

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A concept popularized in the Victorian Era, referring to children and youth who were considered problematic for a variety of reasons.

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Juvenile Delinquent

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System of laws, policies, and practices designed under the guilding philosophy that children and youth, because of their age and maturity, should not be subject to criminal law in the same manner as adults.

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Juvenile Justice System

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A condition in which people are excluded from mainstream society. This exclusion can be economic, social, cultural, political, or all four.

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Marginalized

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Refers to situations where people, groups, circumstances, or events are defined and perceived to be a threat to security and public order.

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Moral Panic

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Offender and offence data based on information collected for administrative purposes by justice agencies, such as the police, courts, and correctional institutions.

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Official Crime

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A situation where politicians propose or develop criminal justice policy that reflects public sentiment, as presented through the media, rather than actual criminal activity or policy effectiveness.

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Penal Populism

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A 19th-century term for prisons based on a philosophy of penitence and punishment to atone for wrongs.

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Penitentiary

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The ways in which youth crime is understood and talked about, both formally and informally, and the actions, laws, and policies that derive from this discourse.

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Politics of Youth Crime

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Distinct period in Canadian history in which youthful offenders were separated from adults in an attempt to prevent them from developing a criminal lifestyle that could last a lifetime.

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Post-Victorian Period

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Distinct period in Canadian history in which children and youth were treated the same as adults.

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Pre-Confederation Period

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Research information gathered directly from the original source.

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Primary Data

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Process by which something, someone, or some group is defined as a problem.

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Problematize

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Matters of public concern that are debated in a variety of forums and usually involved demands for action.

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Public Issues

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A 19th-century term for juvenile prisons that were based on the belief in the ability of prisons to reform or change an individual.

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Reformatories

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A belief that the right treatment can change a person’s attitudes, values, and/or behaviour.

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Rehabilitative Philosophy

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Research information or data that was originally collected for another purpose.

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Secondary Data

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How something is ordered and organized, how it’s parts relate and connect to each other and to the whole.

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Structural

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Distinct period in Canadian history in which behaviour and well-being of children and youth became a subject of concern.

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Victorian Period

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The rate of violent youth crime had remained relatively stable since _____ and began decreasing in _____. By _____ it had decreased by _____%.

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1992

2002

2012

14%

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Enacted in April 2003.

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Youth Criminal Justice Act

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On ___ ___, ____, conservatives revised the ___ ___ ___ ___.

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October 23, 2012 | Youth Criminal Justice Act

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Enacted April 2, 1984.

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Young Offenders Act