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The Lost Key: Secure Accommodation and Juvenile Crime: An English and Welsh Perspective

The Lost Key: Secure Accommodation and Juvenile Crime: An English and Welsh Perspective This paper discusses aspects of a study of children in secure accommodation conducted in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. Secure accommodation is analysed as an ambiguous disposal designed to hold both offenders and other youngsters causing concern. Reflecting a western cultural tendency to assume the existence of a technical solution to every problem, professional responses to the uncertainty accompanying ambiguity include the pursuit of more knowledge to identify the “key” to the problems the youngsters present. Some implications of this approach for the youngsters themselves are discussed, and it is suggested that rather than focussing predominantly on system input, reformist endeavour might concentrate on what children have to do to be discharged. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

The Lost Key: Secure Accommodation and Juvenile Crime: An English and Welsh Perspective

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SAGE
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ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486589302600304
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Abstract

This paper discusses aspects of a study of children in secure accommodation conducted in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. Secure accommodation is analysed as an ambiguous disposal designed to hold both offenders and other youngsters causing concern. Reflecting a western cultural tendency to assume the existence of a technical solution to every problem, professional responses to the uncertainty accompanying ambiguity include the pursuit of more knowledge to identify the “key” to the problems the youngsters present. Some implications of this approach for the youngsters themselves are discussed, and it is suggested that rather than focussing predominantly on system input, reformist endeavour might concentrate on what children have to do to be discharged.

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1993

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