Parental responsibility for youth crime: a comparative study of legislation in four countries

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dc.contributor.authorParada, Malgorzata Maria (Gosia)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeLinden, Rick (Sociology) Bracken, Denis (Social Work)en
dc.contributor.supervisorSmandych, Russell (Sociology)en
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-06T14:13:21Z
dc.date.available2010-04-06T14:13:21Z
dc.date.issued2010-04-06T14:13:21Z
dc.degree.disciplineSociologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis is a comparative study of how four countries –Canada, United States of America, England and Wales, and Australia –have developed youth crime related parental responsibility laws. In particular, I explore how governments have responded to calls for making parents more responsible for the criminal behavior of their children by relying on methods of governing that seek to incorporate the concept of “responsibilization” into legislation and practice. In doing so, I show how governments in a number of countries have ostensibly moved toward less state intervention in the prevention of youth criminality and have come to rely more on parents by enacting laws that acknowledge parental accountability for the criminality of children. In addition, this study uses the concept of policy transfer to examine how those responsible for developing youth criminal justice policy look to policies or laws in other jurisdictions for ways to prevent youth criminality. Despite the fact that there are similarities in legislation across the four countries examined in this study, only minimally do governments in these countries make reference to policies found in other countries. The thesis also looks at specific national and state–level government debates surrounding parental responsibility laws, and the perceptions governments elected officials have of youth criminality and parental responsibility.en
dc.description.noteMay 2010en
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dc.identifier.citationHutchinson, Terry, Gosia Parada and Russell Smandych. 2009. “Show me a bad kid and I’ll show you a lousy parent’: Making Parents Responsible for Youth Crime in Australian and Canadian Contexts.” Australasian Canadian Studies 26 (2): 49-86.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/3888
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectParental Responsibilityen
dc.subjectYouth Justice Legislationen
dc.subjectResponsibilizationen
dc.subjectPolicy Transferen
dc.titleParental responsibility for youth crime: a comparative study of legislation in four countriesen
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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