Community practitioners supporting young men with borderline intellectual functioning in the criminal justice system: capability for voice and agency

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grazia Catalano
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Intellectual Functioning ◽  
Borderline Intellectual Functioning ◽  
System Capability

“A Rose out of This Cement”

2018 ◽  
pp. 142-161
Author(s):  
Nikki Jones
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Black Fathers ◽  
Community Residents ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Chapter 5 tells the story of Jay, one of several young men that Eric and his group tried to support shortly in his efforts to break free from the criminal justice system. I first met Jay when he was in his early twenties. He was just beginning to construct the kind of narrative and life that would lead him away from the street. Five years after our first meeting, I found myself speaking at Jay’s funeral. This chapter reveals the limitations of buffer-and-bridge work when it comes to changing the life trajectory of young men like Jay and highlights the limitations of the crime-fighting community when it comes to protecting Black youth from violence. The chapter provides a compelling illustration of how and why individualistic efforts at transformation or narrowly focused calls for the redemption of Black men in general and Black fathers in particular – narratives often embraced by a variety of community residents – will always fall short of delivering young people from the various forms of violence that shape their adolescence.

scholarly journals Safety Work with an Ethnic Slant

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 088-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wästerfors ◽  
Veronika Burcar
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Safety Work ◽  
Ethnographic Data

Ethnic discrimination in the criminal justice system is a well-researched topic, but the significance of ethnicity in policing activities at more mundane levels has attracted less attention. This article analyzes ethnographic data on municipal ‘safety work’ in a Swedish city troubled with robberies, vandalism, and violence. It shows how the efforts of different safety workers, operating to curb crime and promote security, came to focus on the ‘soft’ policing of young men with various immigrant backgrounds. A set of street-level safety practices, performed within spatial demarcations, was found to represent a more-or-less silent orientation towards local minorities; a focus on non-Swedish ethnicities was embedded in the policing activity. This article points out the importance of implied ethnicities in the contemporary landscape of plural policing.

scholarly journals Substance Use and HIV-Risk Behaviors Among Young Men Involved in the Criminal Justice System

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Valera ◽  
Matthew Epperson ◽  
Jessie Daniels ◽  
Megha Ramaswamy ◽  
Nicholas Freudenberg
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Hiv Risk Behaviors

scholarly journals Youth Justice, Black Children and Young Men in Liverpool: A Story of Rac(ism), Identity and Contested Spaces

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
John Wainwright ◽  
Laura Robertson ◽  
Cath Larkins ◽  
Mick Mckeown
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
The North ◽  
Before And After

This study explores the experiences of the black children and young men that attended a Youth Offending Team (YOT) in Liverpool, a city in the North of England, UK. It focuses on the perspectives of both the YOT practitioners and the black children/young men as they develop working relationships with each other. Through this two-way prism the back children/young men reflect on what is important to them before and after they enter the criminal justice system. Likewise, the YOT practitioners provide their understanding of the key issues in the young people’s lives—in particular, how the black children/young men made sense of their lives in Liverpool with a particular identity with place, space, class and race. A genealogy of race/class prism, along with an intersectional and appreciative inquiry methodology, was employed that encouraged the youth justice workers and young black men to explore the strengths and realities of their lives. Focus groups were undertaken with seven YOT practitioners and managers, along with semi-structured interviews with five black children/young men. The methodology focused on points of intersection of power, difference and identity. Findings that emerged from the participants included the experience of racism within the criminal justice system, the community and the wider city, along with the importance of education, employment and relations with the young people’s family. A core theme was an identity of black children/young men from a specific region. This intersection was as Scousers, black boys/young men, the contestation over space and their negotiated identity regarding race. The ambivalence and (un)certainty that these identities evoked provide possibilities for youth justice practitioners engaging with young black men involved in serious and repeat offending.

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