Overview
Examines the intersections of youth justice and migration
Draws on rich empirical data from a study in Belgium
Calls for a review of protection practices
Discusses the concepts of discriminatory ethnicisation, culturalisation and migrationisation
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Olga Petintseva is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests are located at the intersection of critical criminology, migration studies and linguistics. She is particularly interested in how migration impacts or becomes centred out in ‘domestic’ institutions, which are not structurally accustomed to mobility and diversity (e.g. criminal justice).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth Justice and Migration
Book Subtitle: Discursive Harms
Authors: Olga Petintseva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94208-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94207-0Published: 29 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06813-4Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94208-7Published: 16 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 269
Topics: Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Migration, Crime Prevention, Ethnicity Studies