CRIM 3249

Students will critically and comparatively analyze current issues in youth justice. They will study topics such as the over-representation of Indigenous youth and other minority youth in the youth justice system, youth and the media, gender justice, models of youth justice, policy implications of theories of youth justice, sentencing youth, youth charged with sex offences, youth involved in gangs, other violent and/or persistent youth offenders, less serious youth offenders, physical and cyber-bullying, and rehabilitation. This course will be approached using a trauma-informed theoretical understanding of youth justice involvement.