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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299865003321

Autore

Petintseva Olga

Titolo

Youth Justice and Migration : Discursive Harms / / by Olga Petintseva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-94208-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 269 p.)

Disciplina

364.3609493

Soggetti

Juvenile delinquents

Critical criminology

Emigration and immigration

Crime prevention

Ethnicity

Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice

Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime

Migration

Crime Prevention

Ethnicity Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Working premises and methods: Discriminatory practices of youth justice as epistemology -- Chapter 2. War torn children and criminal vagabonds -- Chapter 3. Age, agency, responsibility -- Chapter 4. Living up to ‘good family’ ideals -- Chapter 5. The significance of school-based reports -- Chapter 6. Discursive harms -- Chapter 7. Practicing youth protection -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the implications of the professional and judicial discourses on migrant youth in the Belgian youth justice system. Drawing on a detailed study of 55 court case files and in-depth interviews with over forty youth justice professionals, the book explores the problematisations of migrant Roma and Caucasian young people in the youth justice system to argue that they result in



‘discursive harms’. It discusses the assumptions and the effects of explanations of deviant behaviour, ambiguities in representations of young people’s agency and responsibility, differing assumptions about the moral potential of Roma and Caucasian families, and the reframing of assessments in school-based reports as signals of delinquency. The book reflects on how to address the ‘discursive harms’ identified and calls for a review of protection practices and ideals from a fundamental rights perspective. This book contributes to a topic that will have increasing significance for youth justice practice in Belgium as well as the rest of Europe.