Discipline, educate and punish: Law, discourse and praxis in a Portuguese youth detention centre

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Autor(a) principal: Zoettl, P. A.
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/31314
Resumo: Based on an ethnographic study in a Portuguese youth detention centre (YDC), the article discusses the divergent discourses of law, the judiciary and detention centres, and the way they are put into practice. While the law gives priority to young offenders’ ‘education’, both the sentencing practices of the judiciary and the institutional practices of YDCs adopt and implement primarily a disciplinary stance on youth justice. The article anatomizes how these divergent discourses intermingle, and contrasts the institutional discourses with the inmates’ views of, and reactions to, the disciplinary mode of operation of the centres. It is suggested that the regime of confinement and strategies of reward and punishment of the YDCs induce juveniles to adopt only short-lived changes of conduct, ultimately confining the law’s precept of education to a praxis of behavioural conditioning.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Discipline, educate and punish: Law, discourse and praxis in a Portuguese youth detention centre
title Discipline, educate and punish: Law, discourse and praxis in a Portuguese youth detention centre
spellingShingle Discipline, educate and punish: Law, discourse and praxis in a Portuguese youth detention centre
Zoettl, P. A.
Discourse analysis
Juvenile justice
Portugal
Youth custody
Youth offending
title_short Discipline, educate and punish: Law, discourse and praxis in a Portuguese youth detention centre
title_full Discipline, educate and punish: Law, discourse and praxis in a Portuguese youth detention centre
title_fullStr Discipline, educate and punish: Law, discourse and praxis in a Portuguese youth detention centre
title_full_unstemmed Discipline, educate and punish: Law, discourse and praxis in a Portuguese youth detention centre
title_sort Discipline, educate and punish: Law, discourse and praxis in a Portuguese youth detention centre
author Zoettl, P. A.
author_facet Zoettl, P. A.
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Zoettl, P. A.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Discourse analysis
Juvenile justice
Portugal
Youth custody
Youth offending
topic Discourse analysis
Juvenile justice
Portugal
Youth custody
Youth offending
description Based on an ethnographic study in a Portuguese youth detention centre (YDC), the article discusses the divergent discourses of law, the judiciary and detention centres, and the way they are put into practice. While the law gives priority to young offenders’ ‘education’, both the sentencing practices of the judiciary and the institutional practices of YDCs adopt and implement primarily a disciplinary stance on youth justice. The article anatomizes how these divergent discourses intermingle, and contrasts the institutional discourses with the inmates’ views of, and reactions to, the disciplinary mode of operation of the centres. It is suggested that the regime of confinement and strategies of reward and punishment of the YDCs induce juveniles to adopt only short-lived changes of conduct, ultimately confining the law’s precept of education to a praxis of behavioural conditioning.
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