Between diverging discourses of the child: juveniles’ self-construction in coercive residential care

Reime, Monika Alvestad

doi:10.1080/13575279.2017.1319797

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“…Previous research on the experiences of children and young people in institutional placements has documented various positions and strategies. In a Norwegian study, young people in coercive residential care positioned themselves in two ways-as an autonomous individual and as a responsible individual (Reime, 2017). Interestingly, Reime (2017) concludes that the youths did not talk about themselves as vulnerable, at risk or in need of control, nor did they talk about themselves as rights-bearers.…”

Section: Secure Care As An Institutional and Relational Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a Norwegian study, young people in coercive residential care positioned themselves in two ways-as an autonomous individual and as a responsible individual (Reime, 2017). Interestingly, Reime (2017) concludes that the youths did not talk about themselves as vulnerable, at risk or in need of control, nor did they talk about themselves as rights-bearers. Follesø (2015) discusses the term 'youth at risk' and the ways in which young people reject being labelled as such because it gives them a feeling of being a problem.…”

Section: Secure Care As An Institutional and Relational Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Negotiating, Opposing, and Transposing Dangerousness: A Relational Perspective on Young People’s Experiences of Secure Care

Enell

Wilińska

2020

YOUNG

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This article analyses how young people, with experiences of secure care, relate to the contradictory images of children in child welfare: the child in danger and the dangerous child. The study is based in Sweden and consists of in-depth interviews with 16 youths conducted repeatedly (three times) over a period of 2 years. Using the perspective of relational sociology, we demonstrate how abstract images of children are materialized through the institutional practices of broken, interrupted, forbidden and forced relations. Within this context, young people are found to relate differently to being placed in the institution by negotiating, opposing and transposing. All practices display their unfolding agency and struggle to make sense of the experience. The restrictive practices seem to deny young people relations through which a sense of safety and care can be established. We conclude by putting into question the very foundations of secure care within child welfare services.

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Section: Secure Care As An Institutional and Relational Practicementioning

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Negotiating, Opposing, and Transposing Dangerousness: A Relational Perspective on Young People’s Experiences of Secure Care

Enell

Wilińska

2020

YOUNG

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“…Other studies have focused on how children and youth assign meaning to and perceive everyday life in different types of confinement. Common to these studies is a focus on relational practices and identity formation (Bengtsson, 2012; Franzén, 2015; Jansen, 2011; Reime, 2017; Tysnes, 2014; Vogel, 2018). While Reime (2017, 2018) and Tysnes (2014) explored coercive placement in un-locked residential child care institutions, Bengtsson (2012), Franzén (2015) and Vogel (2018) studied experiences of coercive placement in secure institutions.…”

Section: Research On Residential Child Care Institutionsmentioning

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Youth Experiences of and Views on Un-locked Coercive Placement in Residential Child Care

Reime

Tysnes

2020

YOUNG

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This article explores Norwegian youth experiences of and views on coercive placement in un-locked residential child care institutions. Inspired by Antonovsky’s salutogenic theory, the article discusses factors that make placement an opportunity for development among youth with serious drug and behavioural problems. The empirical material comes from interviews with 34 youth under and after coercive placement. The findings reveal that coercive placement in un-locked institutions can be helpful and necessary, provided that the institutions have the means available to protect the residents and provide supportive and meaningful treatment content. Factors such as treatment structure, the content of everyday life, clear expectations, and boundaries are discussed as important factors that help the placement to be an opportunity for development among youth with serious drug and behavioural problems.

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“…The intersection of these two discourses, of childhood innocence and of risks to children’s safety, often positions children primarily in terms of vulnerability. This is particularly the case for children who are frequently considered more “vulnerable”, such as those in out‐of‐home care and children with disability (Collings & Davies 2008; McDougall 2008; Keddell 2018; Reime 2018). Consequently, the governance of children’s lives (primarily by adults) reflects efforts to protect them from risk (Smith 2014).…”

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Children and safety in Australian policy: Implications for organisations and practitioners

Powell

Graham

Canosa

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Aust J Social Issues

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Child safety is now a national policy priority in Australia. Extensive enquiries and reviews have escalated legislative and policy responses focused on developing, maintaining and monitoring “child safe” organisations. The recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse point to the importance of cultural conditions within organisations in supporting child safety and the need for responsive change in some organisations. Drawing on a recent policy analysis, undertaken as part of a larger Australian Research Council Discovery Project, this article examines how children and safety are constructed, within and across relevant state and federal government policies in Australia, and the implications of this. Distinctions are drawn between conceptualisations of children within the broader education policy context and two specific policy contexts in which children are considered particularly vulnerable to abuse – out‐of‐home care and disability. The findings indicate that policy discourses of “child safe” potentially foster different emphases and approaches in organisations. These have implications for the way children are positioned in relation to their safety, how their rights are recognised and implemented, and what is required to foster cultural conditions within organisations to best support children’s safety and wellbeing.

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Between diverging discourses of the child: juveniles’ self-construction in coercive residential care

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Negotiating, Opposing, and Transposing Dangerousness: A Relational Perspective on Young People’s Experiences of Secure Care

Negotiating, Opposing, and Transposing Dangerousness: A Relational Perspective on Young People’s Experiences of Secure Care

Youth Experiences of and Views on Un-locked Coercive Placement in Residential Child Care

Children and safety in Australian policy: Implications for organisations and practitioners

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