RT Article
T1 Shifting sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 25
IS 2
SP 304
OP 324
A1 Gray, Patricia
A1 Smith, Roger
A2 Smith, Roger
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1756112541
AB This article begins by tracing the emergence of ‘therapeutic surveillance’ as a new formula for neoliberal disciplinary power. It maps and interrogates the reconfiguration of a hybrid array of neoliberal rationalities and technologies for the penal governance of young people who offend. It then engages with the challenges posed by critical realists to the governmentality position by questioning how human agency can contest, subvert and resist the dystopian reach of ‘therapeutic surveillance’ in action. While ‘therapeutic surveillance’ is steeped in a disciplinary logic of individualization and responsibilization, we argue that it also opens the space for a more transformative youth penality to be articulated; one which challenges the constraints of structural disadvantage in the pursuit of social justice. The article concludes by arguing that newly emerging youth justice configurations which have appeared in response to dramatic cuts in public spending offer a plausible or transformative challenge to the regulatory logic of neoliberal youth penality.
K1 transformative social justice
K1 therapeutic surveillance
K1 strategic-relational
K1 neoliberal youth penality
K1 Governmentality
K1 Critical Realism
DO 10.1177/1362480619872262