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‘If You Don’t Let Us In, We’ll Get Arrested’: Class-cultural Dynamics in the Provision of, and Resistance to, Youth Justice Work
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This article explored the tension between culturally mediated constructions of appropriateness, both in terms of youth behaviour and state responses thereto, and argued that, through youth justice work, the state attempts to inculcate idealized behavioural expectations "downwards" on those constructed as normatively imperilled.Abstract:
Based on an ethnographic account of a youth justice project and its attendees, this article explores the tensions between culturally mediated constructions of appropriateness, both in terms of youth behaviour and state responses thereto. It argues that, through youth justice work, the state attempts to inculcate idealized behavioural expectations ‘downwards’ on those constructed as normatively imperilled. By contrast, client youth construct their conduct in light of their classed and gendered experiences of marginality, which prompt them towards resistance. Differential understandings amongst stakeholders complicate youth justice work; contested meanings between its agents and clients may, however, be fatal to its objectives.read more
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Street habitus: gangs, territorialism and social change in Glasgow
TL;DR: The authors re-assess the relationship between youth gang behaviour and territory in the context of an ethnographic study of youth "gangs" and territorial space in Glasgow, and argue that territorialism and gang behaviour should be understood as distinct and distinct phenomena, connected with the lived experiences of limited spatial autonomy.
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Hearing new voices: Re-viewing Youth Justice Policy through Practitioners’ Relationships with Young People
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that centralizing the practitioner-young person relationship remains the key to successful practice and thus needs greater, more detailed research attention, and conclude with suggestions for research to enable joint activity between young people and practitioners to ‘rethink’ youth justice.
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Negotiating marginality : young men's post-industrial transitions in the context of a sports-based intervention project
TL;DR: In this article, a socio-culturally and economically distinct urban locales undergoing an ongoing evolution into post-industrial neighbourhoods, and how the young men who inhabit them are exploring and constructing new identities in attempts to transcend the exclusionary logic of postindustrial living.
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