How Far Have Ideas About Childhood Changed Over The Centuries?
To what extend have ideas about childhood changed over the centuries?
New concepts of childhood have been established to an enormous extent over the centuries. Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries people have had different ideas of childhood and how children should be raised. On the contrary, as society has developed, perceptions about childhood have arisen. In modern society people have grown and have recognised new notions of childhood. Today, the media plays a large role in the way children are brought up. Society also faces differences with adversities in child imprisonment as children are viewed children as innocent thus causing punishments to become less punitive. Also there has been a large difference of teenage pregnancies …show more content…
Throughout the early 1800’s children as young as 7 years of age were assumed to be ‘’incapable of criminal intent’’ nonetheless if a crime was to occur which was committed by a child over 7 years of age, he or she would face a criminal trial and based on the child’s crime they may be sentenced to life imprisonment. Some of these crimes included murder and theft. In the 1990s, the Australian government came to the decision to discontinue child imprisonment as they argued that it was inhumane to sentence a child to die in prison. In current Australian Law, a child under 18 cannot be condemned to life imprisonment however the child must attend a juvenile prison where they will face their punishment. In relation is the case is the abduction of James Bulger. In 1993 Liverpool, England, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were charged for the crime of abducting, torturing and murdering 2 year old James Bulger. The two boys were sentenced to eight years in a juvenile prison. If this case was to occur in the 1900s the situation would be approached differently as the boys may face an execution whereas in today’s society children are seen as innocence and unsure of their actions. This displays a modification of a huge extent throughout the centuries as children were treated differently when it came to punishment thus making the childhood experience different as centuries
New concepts of childhood have been established to an enormous extent over the centuries. Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries people have had different ideas of childhood and how children should be raised. On the contrary, as society has developed, perceptions about childhood have arisen. In modern society people have grown and have recognised new notions of childhood. Today, the media plays a large role in the way children are brought up. Society also faces differences with adversities in child imprisonment as children are viewed children as innocent thus causing punishments to become less punitive. Also there has been a large difference of teenage pregnancies …show more content…
Throughout the early 1800’s children as young as 7 years of age were assumed to be ‘’incapable of criminal intent’’ nonetheless if a crime was to occur which was committed by a child over 7 years of age, he or she would face a criminal trial and based on the child’s crime they may be sentenced to life imprisonment. Some of these crimes included murder and theft. In the 1990s, the Australian government came to the decision to discontinue child imprisonment as they argued that it was inhumane to sentence a child to die in prison. In current Australian Law, a child under 18 cannot be condemned to life imprisonment however the child must attend a juvenile prison where they will face their punishment. In relation is the case is the abduction of James Bulger. In 1993 Liverpool, England, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were charged for the crime of abducting, torturing and murdering 2 year old James Bulger. The two boys were sentenced to eight years in a juvenile prison. If this case was to occur in the 1900s the situation would be approached differently as the boys may face an execution whereas in today’s society children are seen as innocence and unsure of their actions. This displays a modification of a huge extent throughout the centuries as children were treated differently when it came to punishment thus making the childhood experience different as centuries