Young Offenders and Open Custody

Pettersson, Tove

doi:10.4324/9781315651446

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“…At the heart of this conflict is how youth detention homes use their power. Youth detention homes could be seen to employ power as a corrective technique in order to transform placed youth into docile and productive citizens (Foucault 1979; Pettersson 2017). In Swedish youth detention homes, correctional techniques can be seen in systems of privileges, for example in the use of token economies, whereby privileges are rewarded or taken away, as a form of micro-punishment, in order to manage the behavior of placed youth or teach them proper norms (see Gradin Franzén 2014; Pettersson 2017).…”

Section: Background: Examining (Sport) Pedagogies In Youth Correctionmentioning

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Pedagogies of Sport in Youth Detention: Withholding, Developing, or Just “Busying the Youth”?

Roe

2021

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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This article examines pedagogies of sport in youth detention, drawing on ethnography (primarily participatory observations and interviews) at two all-male youth detention homes in Sweden. Focusing on youths’ experiences situated in discourse and practice, three pedagogies of doing sport in youth detention are described: withholding sport, busying with sport, and sport as developmental community. The young men in this study experienced mixed messages through sport, revealing how rehabilitation through sport was obscured by predominant pedagogies of withholding sport (i.e., punishment or correction) and busying with sport (i.e., containment or filling the time). Yet there were glimpses of another pedagogy, sport as developmental community, and the experiences and pedagogical work underpinning this endeavor are highlighted. This study illustrates how competing functions of youth justice—punishment, containment, and development—are accomplished, and experienced, through (sport) pedagogical practice.

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Section: Background: Examining (Sport) Pedagogies In Youth Correctionmentioning

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Pedagogies of Sport in Youth Detention: Withholding, Developing, or Just “Busying the Youth”?

Roe

2021

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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“…Tight power both fragments the prisoner society, then, and works through it. Tove Pettersson (2017: 89) describes how prison officers in a Swedish open unit for young people imposed small collective punishments to ‘get the youths to steer one another in the direction of good behaviour’. She considers this through a Foucauldian lens and argues that it demonstrates that power becomes ‘invisible’ as the youths take over ‘the disciplinary work of staff’ (p. 90).…”

Section: Literature Review: Penal Power and The Prisoner Societymentioning

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‘Perfectly individualized and constantly visible’? Lateral tightness in a prison holding men convicted of sex offences

Ievins

2020

Incarceration

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Late-modern penal power has been described as ‘tight’. Through the increasing use of indeterminate sentences and psychological assessment, and the growing insistence that prisoners engage in self-government, the prison monitors and seeks to change those it holds. This tight and disciplinarian power is often described as contributing to the increasing fragmentation and atomisation of the prisoner community. However, this article, which is based on research conducted in a English medium-security prison for men convicted of sex offences, argues that tightness can operate through the prisoner community, in a process which it terms ‘lateral regulation’. It shows that prisoners spend a lot of time observing, categorising and policing their peers, in ways which replicate and often uphold the more formal systems of power. However, the relationship between these two systems of power is complex, and prisoners’ collective self-regulation can conflict with and challenge the demands of the penal institution, in a way which reveals some of the weaknesses in the institution’s disciplinary gaze, and indicates the normative motivations underlying this regulation.

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“…Previous research has noted incarcerated youths’ perceptions of powerlessness in relation to staff (see, e.g. Pettersson, 2017; Kivett and Warren, 2002). This is also one of a number of distinguishing characteristics of the total institution (Goffman, 1961).…”

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“…This, in turn, contributes to a situation where such institutions rarely achieve their rehabilitative goals (Franzén and Holmqvist, 2014: 71). In the context of special approved homes, Pettersson (2017: 88f) has described a process of superficial adaptation, whereby youths adapt themselves to institutional rules and conditions rather than undergoing any ‘real change’.…”

Section: Special Approved Homes As Total Institutionsmentioning

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The micropolitics of conflicts in total institutions – The case of special approved homes for youths in Sweden

Stenström

Pettersson

2021

Incarceration

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This article focuses on conflicts between youths and staff at special approved homes in Sweden. We direct a special focus at the institutional micropolitics within which these conflicts arise and which the conflicts also contribute to form. Drawing on the work of Emerson and Messinger, our point of departure is an interactionist analysis of the micropolitics of trouble. One focal aspect in our study is the recurring patterns of conflicts – a pattern we have chosen to label the ‘conflict script’. The conflict script is a process set in motion when the staff explicitly state that they have ‘had enough’. Once started, it becomes an imperative and is therefore, in a sense, a consistent micropolitical measure. The conflict script generates immutable positions – the staff cannot back down, since their authority is at stake, and the youths know that resistance will result in the use of coercion. However, what leads to the staff having ‘had enough’ varies between interactions, which thus produces inconsistent micropolitics. The conflict script is central to understanding how trivial breaches of the rules, or other forms of disturbances, can escalate into situations that involve the use of force in the form of physical restraint and isolation.

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Young Offenders and Open Custody

Cited by 9 publications

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Pedagogies of Sport in Youth Detention: Withholding, Developing, or Just “Busying the Youth”?

Pedagogies of Sport in Youth Detention: Withholding, Developing, or Just “Busying the Youth”?

‘Perfectly individualized and constantly visible’? Lateral tightness in a prison holding men convicted of sex offences

The micropolitics of conflicts in total institutions – The case of special approved homes for youths in Sweden

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