RT Article
T1 Crime, Governance, and Knowledge Production: The “Two-Track Common-Sense Approach” to Juvenile Criminality in the United States
JF Social justice
VO 36
IS 1
SP 102
OP 121
A1 Brown, Elizabeth
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747156620
AB The writer contends that the two-track approach to juvenile criminality legislated by U.S. Congress is emblematic of the ways in which policy decisions become socially and spatially aligned with discrete populations. She examines how congressional authorities conceptualize the youth capable of violence, and suggests causes for such development by examining their families and communities. The writer highlights moral panics on youth violence during the 1970s and 1990s, gang and school violence, and their construction within congressional hearings. She concludes that the two-track approach is indicative of how the micropolitics of racial differentiation within state policies is produced through the practice of liberal legalism.
K1 Crime Prevention
K1 Racialization
K1 Trial & sentencing of children as adults
K1 Juvenile Delinquency
K1 Juvenile diversion programs
K1 Criminal Justice System
K1 Juvenile justice administration
K1 Juvenile delinquency -- United States
K1 Juvenile justice administration -- United States