Youth Justice and Migration - Discursive Harms

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.

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Olga Petintseva
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2018
• EAN: 9783319942070
• ISBN: 978-3-31-994207-0
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 217 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 502 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 269 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Migration, B, Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien, Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Ethnic Studies, Bevölkerung und Migrationsgeographie, biotechnology, Migration, immigration & emigration, auseinandersetzen, Ethnicity, Law and Criminology, Crime & criminology, Emigration and immigration, Ethnicity Studies, Critical criminology, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Juvenile delinquents, Crime Control and Security, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Crime Prevention