Trouble-Makers and Interactionism. Reconsidering Quarrels in Institutions for Juvenile Delinquents
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Summary, in English
The tense relationship between 'troublesome youth' and conventional society does not end with incarceration or institutional treatment. Rather, it is transformed into an abundance of interpersonal conflicts within incarceration and treatment. This article uses an interactionist perspective to critically assess five research approaches that account for these phenomena in various ways: 1) quarrels as personality disorders, 2) quarrels as deviant subcultures, 3) quarrels as objects of social control, 4) quarrels and the micro-politics of trouble, and 5) quarrels and the sociology of youth and children. It is argued that an empirically open interactionism within and across the latter four approaches should be sharpened in order to better grasp the social nature and shifting emergence of quarrels in institutional treatment.
Department/s
Publishing year
2009
Language
English
Pages
18-36
Publication/Series
Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention
Volume
10
Issue
1
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Routledge
Topic
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Keywords
- interactionism
- Institution
- Juvenile delinquency
- sociology
- Social control
- Interpersonal conflict
- sociologi
Status
Published
Research group
- Kriminal- och socialvetenskapligt nätverk
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1404-3858