Changing Narratives of Youth Crime: From Social Causes to Threats to the Social

ISBN-13: 9780367726980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Bernd Dollinger

Opis

Drawing on data from Germany, this book focuses on changing narratives of youth crime in recent decades and the exact narratives that have been used, abandoned, invented or criticized in order to instil particular understandings of crime and measures to act against it.

Spis treści

1. Narrating Crime  2. Devising Juvenile Criminal Law: Political Debates on Youth Crime  3. Working with Youths: Professional  4. Being a Delinquent Youth: Young Defendants Recounting Their Cases  5. Commonalities: How Society Got Lost and Was Re-Narrated

O autorze

Bernd Dollinger is a professor of pedagogy and social work at the University of Siegen, Germany. Youth crime is his long-standing focus of research. Bernd’s special research interests relate to drug use, criminal policy, professionalism in dealing with juvenile delinquency and processes of identity negotiation of youths. He has published extensively on juvenile delinquency. His publications include handbooks, textbooks and numerous research papers. Most recently, he has been particularly interested in reconstructing measures against crime 'from below', as it were, from the often neglected perspective of the defendants and convicts. They in particular have a lot to tell, and their stories are individually linked to cultural crime discourses.