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youth
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- socially constructed
- a transitional time in life between childhood and maturity
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troubling youth
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primarily a threat to others and to society
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troubled youth
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primarily a threat to themselves
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difference between perceptions and patterns of youth crime
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- perceptions: often popular images of “out of control” and that youth crime is growing rapidly
- patters: very different from popular images
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three dominant ways to count crime or describe crime patterns
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- official statistics
- victimization surveys
- self report studies
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problems with crime rates:
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often deployed with a limited understanding of sociological, demographic, criminological, and legal processes. which can have significant effects on crime rates
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youth crime since 1992
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- steady downward trend in youth crime
- ## we still have an overrepresentation of youth in the criminal justice system
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highest crime rate age:
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18-24 years old
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troubled youth:
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- very normative and common
- more common than drug use
- 75-83% have tried by grade 12
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binge drinking
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- five for males, 4 for females
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binge drinking is more frequent in:
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university students
- university athletes
- members of frats
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popular prevention
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- approaches may be the most effective in reducing harm
- target the uni environment as a whole
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prevention paradox
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growing efforts to help the problem drinkers on campus have not reduced the harm of alcohol consumption
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most common efforts to reducing uni binge drinking
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- prevention and retroactive efforts
- target the individual
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troubled youth and drug use
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- drug use is lower today than it was in the 70s
- ## most common drug= marijuana
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reasons for drug use in youth
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- relieve stress
- form of escape
- social activity
- satisfying curiosity
- showing independence
- becoming part of a specific peer group
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problematic drug use vs. the individual
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- genetic and environmental predispositions
- degree of personal competence
- connections with violent behaviour
- gang involvement
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problematic drug use vs. community
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- norms aout substance use
- prevalence of crime
- price and availability of substances
- peers
- economic conditions
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problematic drug use vs. family
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- parenting style
- degree of parent- child emotional attachment
- family history of substance abuse
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problematic drug use vs. school
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- academic success
- reading skill
- problem solving abilities
- extracurricular activities
- feelings of belonging
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youth gangs
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- no universal definition of gangs
- youth crime and gangs are considered to e out of control
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are gangs really a youth phenomenon?
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- the post industrial era locked opportunities for many living in our most impoverished areas
- OG’s
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why do youth join gangs
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- material incentives
- recreation
- place of refuge and camo
- time to resist
- physical protection
- commitment to the community
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gangs and neighourhoods
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- gangs identification to a specific terf is one of their most defining elements
- provide their primary financial means of gang substance and maintenance
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who benefits from the moral panics about gangs
- media
- politicians
- law enforcement
- gangs themselves
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representations of regent park
- poster child for poverty
- thoroughly ghettoized
- homicide hotbed
- mythical ruin
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sweet mothers and gangbangers
- middle class black neighbourhood in chicago called groveland
- extremely tight networks among criminals and non criminal residence
- looks how residential stability and network desire can both facilitate and impede social control
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challenge to social disorganization theory
- existence of residentially stale neighbourhoods with continuing high rates of crime
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social disorganization
- the inability of a community to realize the common values of its residence and maintain effective social controls
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explanation for social disorganization
- while internally regulated, these neighbourhoods lack essential ties to public forms of social control
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in stale low income areas
- gangs may form
- gangs can benefit both criminal and non criminal residence
- crime and these dense networks between criminals and non criminals develop c of pressures caused y restrictions to legitimate means of success
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pattilo findings:
- lack middle class neighbourhoods have higher poverty rates and are closer to poor areas
- high proportions of low income (and economic uncertainty of middle class) makes crime attractive
- residents formed ties c of home ownership and residential stability. facilitates formal and informal social control
- these ties also hinder efforts to rid the neighbourhood of crime
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Groveland's social networks
- residence lived there for long time and most own their homes
- strong ties between criminal and non criminal
- these ties make it difficult to crack down on gangs and drugs
- prosocial residents exert social control over neighbourhood crime
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gang members in groveland
- black mobsters
- low profile criminal activity
- have interest in keeping neighbourhood a safe quiet place (bedroom community: acts as agents to social control)
- behave in acceptable ways
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three major institutions
remand: pretrial detention, used to hold people in custody before trial
provincial: sentenced for two years or less
federal: sentenced for two years or more
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security distinctions of prisons
- maximum, medium, minimum security: based on past criminal history, institutional conduct, dynamic and static factors
- determines: levels of supervision, presence of forearms within institution, movement restrictions, program and resource access
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traditional composition:
- skinners: inmates with sexual offences
- rats: inmates who have informed on others outside and inside the prison
- scaredy cats: individuals fearful of politics found in general pop bc of alternative ad charges or neg history
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contemporary composition
- first timers: first time incarcerated
- high profile: inmate with charges that are highly publicized or possess high profile status with drug or gang circles
- ex gang/street life: inmates attempting to remove themselves from the criminal lifestyle; dropping their colors, cutting off affiliation
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how protective is protective custody:
- does not serve a protective purpose
| - sex offenders are at just as high of a risk of victimization in PC than in GP
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three major arguments: Alberta prison project
- western canadian prison gangs are becoming increasingly volatile and membership is fluid
- protective custody units have become stand in gang exit units
- PC classification possesses significant stigma resulting in heightened risks for traditional PC populations and ex gang members
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APP: the scary thing of gangs
- lack of loyalty, structure, and respect
- increased prevalence of drug use by higher level members
- branch off gangs headed y new and inexperienced leaders
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inmate/prison code
justified coercion and violence towards traditional PC population, especially sex offenders
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APP placement of gang member concern
- ex gang members follow the inmate code on PC resulting in coercion, threats, and violence
- ex gang members must navigate the discreditable stigmas of PC y engaging in repetitional and moral boundaries
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definition of addiction
- is a primary, chronic disease of rain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry.
- is progressive and can result in disability and premature death
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Addiction vs. genetics
- someones genetics predisposition adn cooccurring mental illnesses can increase the likelihood for addiction
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addiction vs. environment
- environmental risks and influences, such as family, beliefs, peers, stress, all contribute to a greater likelihood
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addiction vs age
- studies indicate that the younger someone is when they are first exposed to drugs and alcohol, the more likely they are to develop an addiction to it
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who is at risk for addiction
- men more likely to use and not seek help
- youth aged 15-24
- youth with a history of child welfare
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types of addiction
- substance addiction: addictive substances are mood altering and lead to physical dependency
- process addiction: involves a specific series of actions or interactions and gives the person the same feeling as a high or an escape
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continuum of drug use
- experimentation and recreational use
- habituation and abuse
- dependence/ addiction
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addiction cycle:
-emotional trigger, craving, ritual, abuse, guilt
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self stigma
is defined as a subjective process that is characterized by negative feelings
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social stigma
describes " the phenomenon of large social groups endorsing stereotypes about acting against a stigmatized individual
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structural stigma
refers to the rules, polices, and procedures of institutions that restrict the rights and opportunities for members of stigmatized groups
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treatment continuum
- intervention, detox, treatment, aftercare, prevention
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three stages of relapse
- emotional
- mental
- physical
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relapse prevention
- tell someone about urges
- distract yourself
- wait 30 min for urge to pass
- do your recovery one day at a time
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