Current responses to juvenile deviance may include punishment, treatment or some form of supervision within the community. Occasionally, the child in question may be placed in a secure unit and suffer incarceration for a lengthy period. Punishment and deterrence are said to play no part in the conceptualization of the purpose of these units, which is described by official rhetoric in purely welfare terms. Even the deprivation of liberty is defined as part of the overall caring process. However, this act of incarceration can suggest other interpretations of the aims of secure juvenile units. "Children Inside" is a study of social control which focuses on this under-researched aspect of the juvenile justice system. In setting the study of one such secure unit in the theoretical framework of Goffman, Foucault and Rothman, Barbara Kelly highlights the gap between the rhetoric of the welfare of the child and the reality of practice. She shows how the official image of benevolence is contradicted by the penal regime of coercion, constraint, and surveillance, and how the rhetorical language of welfare can facilitate a system of repression and control.
This book should be of interest to students of criminology, deviance, social policy and social work.
- ISBN10 0415062470
- ISBN13 9780415062473
- Publish Date 6 February 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English