Crime, Governance, and Knowledge Production: The “Two-Track Common-Sense Approach” to Juvenile Criminality in the United States
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 viole...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2009
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Social justice
Año: 2009, Volumen: 36, Número: 1, Páginas: 102-121 |
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Volltext (Publisher) |
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| Sumario: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2327-641X |