Youth Justice and Migration Discursive Harms /

• Main Author: Petintseva, Olga (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: 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.

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 mig...

Table 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.