‘They’re still children and entitled to be children': problematising the institutionalised mistrust of marginalised youth in Britain

Stephen, Dawn; Squires, Peter

doi:10.1080/1367626042000268962

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“…They are represented in public discourses as at perpetual risk (Furedi, 2004); but also as themselves manifesting or producing risk, risky to others and to themselves (Kelly, 2003). These two coexisting cultural conceptions of childhood and youth form the basis of an increasing degree of intervention, often in the form of medicalisation (Miller and Leger, 2003) but also criminalisation, surveillance and constraint upon children's and young people's movement, associations with others, manner of dress, conduct and intervention into parenting practices (Stephen and Squires, 2004).…”

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The ‘risk gradient’ in policy on children of drug and alcohol users: Framing young people as risky

Bancroft

Wilson

2007

Health, Risk & Society

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The ‘risk gradient’ in policy on children of drug and alcohol users: Framing young people as risky

Bancroft

Wilson

2007

Health, Risk & Society

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“…Young people's relationship with their neighbourhood is often complicated by the stereotypes that link young people's behaviours to anti-social behaviour (ASB) (Coles et al 2000, Kelly 2003, Stephen and Squires 2004, Deuchar 2009, Millie 2009). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Damned if they do, damned if they don't: negotiating the tricky context of anti-social behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods

Neary

Egan

Keenan

et al. 2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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Young people's relationship with anti-social behaviour (ASB) is complicated. While their behaviours are often stereotyped as anti-social (e.g. 'hanging about'), they also experience ASB in their neighbourhood. In this study, we explore young people's own perspectives on ASB, comparing results from 'go-along' interviews and focus groups conducted in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland. This article discusses how young people's everyday experience of ASB was contextualised by social factors such as cultural stereotyping of marginalised groups, poor social connectivity and spatial marginalisation within their neighbourhood. Furthermore, we found that these social factors were mutually reinforcing and interacted in a way that appeared to leave young people in a 'nowin' situation regarding their association with ASB. Participation in ASB and attempts to avoid such involvement were seen to involve negative consequences: participation could entail violence and spatial restrictions linked to territoriality, but avoidance could lead to being ostracised from their peer group. Regardless of involvement, young people felt that adults stereotyped them as anti-social. Our findings therefore provide support for policies and interventions aimed at reducing ASB (perpetrated by residents of all ages); in part by better ensuring that young people have a clear incentive for avoiding such behaviours.

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“…Critical sociologists, mainly from the United Kingdom, who discuss such programs, emphasize the reality and seriousness of side effects like marginalization and exclusion, and argue that these issues ought also to be on the agenda of youth care and youth justice (Kelly, 2000;Muncie et al, 2002;Stephen and Squires, 2004;Case, 2006). Psychosocial means of intervention are critically presented as forms of institutionalized intolerance or mistrust against young people, and are criticized because they would solely target already marginalized, working-class communities.…”

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Early prevention of antisocial behavior (ASB): A comparative ethical analysis of psychosocial and biomedical approaches

2014

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Scientific research regarding juvenile delinquency increasingly emphasizes the importance of early identification of at-risk children and early preventive interventions. Recent developments in the life sciences give a special boost to this development. The corresponding ethical discussion, however, seems to be characterized by a remarkable discrepancy. Life science approaches toward antisocial behavior (ASB) are frequently confronted by controversial discussions as to their ethical, social and legal implications. By contrast, ethics hardly takes notice of currently existing early ASB prevention practices that largely result from social sciences. This article investigates whether biomedical approaches are indeed ethically more problematic or whether instead this gap in the ethical debate manifests undue "bio-exceptionalism". To this end, existing ASB prevention practices and potential biomedically informed future developments are presented and discussed. A series of potential drawbacks, as highlighted in bioethics, are reviewed; and whether, when and how far these might also apply to established psychosocial practices will be explored. We conclude that negative ethical implications might result from all kinds of early screening and prevention practices irrespective of their disciplinary origin. Therefore, it is a moral imperative to include not only future biomedical developments in ethical research, but to critically investigate current psychosocial practices as well.

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‘They’re still children and entitled to be children': problematising the institutionalised mistrust of marginalised youth in Britain

Cited by 21 publications

References 20 publications

The ‘risk gradient’ in policy on children of drug and alcohol users: Framing young people as risky

The ‘risk gradient’ in policy on children of drug and alcohol users: Framing young people as risky

Damned if they do, damned if they don't: negotiating the tricky context of anti-social behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods

Early prevention of antisocial behavior (ASB): A comparative ethical analysis of psychosocial and biomedical approaches

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