The `problem' of anti-social behaviour and the policy knowledge base: Analysing the power/knowledge relationship

Prior, David

doi:10.1177/0261018308098392

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“…Prior (2009) Garrett (2007) and Gregg (2010) critiquing the methods used to undertake evaluations and the analysis and presentation of findings that exaggerate positive and progressive outcomes for households (see Batty and Flint, 2012). Similarly, Hayden and Jenkins (2014) Families programme (Communities and Local Government, 2012), with local authorities provided with indicative numbers of troubled families in their own localities.…”

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Intensive Family Intervention and the Problem Figuration of ‘Troubled Families’

Ball

Batty

Flint

2015

Social Policy & Society

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This article examines how intensive family interventions in England since 1997, including the Coalition Government's Troubled Families Programme, are situated in a contemporary problem figuration of 'anti-social' or 'troubled' families that frames and justifies the utilisation of different models of intensive family intervention. The article explores how techniques of classification and estimation, combined with the controversial use of 'research' evidence in policy making are situated within a 'rational fiction' that constructs 'anti-social' families in particular ways. The article illustrates how this problem figuration has evolved during the New Labour and Coalition administrations in England, identifying their similarities and differences. It then presents findings from a study of intensive family intervention strategies and mechanisms in a large English city to illustrate how this national level discourse and policy framework relates to developing localised practice and the tensions and ambiguities that arise.

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Intensive Family Intervention and the Problem Figuration of ‘Troubled Families’

Ball

Batty

Flint

2015

Social Policy & Society

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“…Recent years have seen growing recognition of a dearth in knowledge around the nature and prevalence of ASB (Prior 2009) and the use and effectiveness of different interventions (Rubin et al 2006). In 2008, when this study began, little was known about: the extent, nature and impact of different ASB interventions on young people; young people's trajectories through different ASB interventions; and their journeys through prevention, ASB and youth justice strategies and sanctions.…”

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Nipping Crime in the Bud? The Use of Antisocial Behaviour Interventions with Young People in England and Wales

Lewis¹,

Crawford²,

Traynor³

2016

CRIMIN

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This article presents findings from a study of the use of anti-social behaviour (ASB) warning letters, Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABCs) and Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) with 3,481 young people from four large metropolitan areas in England which challenge dominant narratives about their use and impact. The findings unsettle prevailing beliefs concerning the targeted use of ASB interventions to tackle low-level incivilities and the timing of their use within a young person's deviant trajectory. They also contest the logical sequencing of behaviour regulation strategies by demonstrating the haphazard deployment of ASB sanctions within complex webs of prevention, ASB and youth justice interventions. The article concludes by considering the findings alongside recent youth justice trends in England and Wales.

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“…In terms of research involving children and young people subject to custodial sentences, Finlay and Jones found that 'healthcare staff had noticed that several young offenders with a history of loss/bereavement in childhood or adolescence seemed particularly emotionally vulnerable' (2000, p. 569), while Phillips and Earle's (2010) ethnographic study of prisoners found it 'hard to hear' the details of bereavement and loss within the life stories of their subjects. Studies of young people subject to Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) also confirm that many have suffered from bereavement or loss (Prior, 2009).…”

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Responding to bereavement, grief and loss: Charting the troubled relationship between research and practice in youth offending services

Hester

Taylor

2011

Mortality

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This paper is concerned with the professional response to bereavement, grief, and loss experienced by children and young people subject to criminal justice interventions. It looks at the most common responses within the youth offending service and secure estate to this 'need' and asks what this says about the nexus between theory, research, and practice. Here the authors draw on both criminological research and the literature around death and dying to discuss what is appropriate, what is ethical, and 'what works' (if anything) in such interventions. They argue that interpretations of the Risk Factor Prevention Paradigm (RFPP), the currently dominant 'mode of understanding' in youth justice, and risk management can result in the relative neglect of bereavement and loss as 'welfare issues' beyond the remit of those engaged in offender rehabilitation. The paradigm's focus on individual pathology also tends to militate against youth practitioner involvement in more social and communityorientated responses to bereavement and loss, despite growing evidence from around the world of the efficacy of such restorative approaches. The authors conclude by reflecting on the call to 'bridge the gap' (Bridging Work Group, 2005) between research and practice in bereavement, asking how a similar process might be facilitated within youth justice.

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The `problem' of anti-social behaviour and the policy knowledge base: Analysing the power/knowledge relationship

Cited by 20 publications

References 16 publications

Intensive Family Intervention and the Problem Figuration of ‘Troubled Families’

Intensive Family Intervention and the Problem Figuration of ‘Troubled Families’

Nipping Crime in the Bud? The Use of Antisocial Behaviour Interventions with Young People in England and Wales

Responding to bereavement, grief and loss: Charting the troubled relationship between research and practice in youth offending services

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