The Problem Child: Provocations toward Dismantling the Carceral State

Autor/in	Meiners, Erica R.
Titel	The Problem Child: Provocations toward Dismantling the Carceral State
Quelle	In: Harvard Educational Review, 87 (2017) 1, S.122-146 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0017-8055
DOI	10.17763/1943-5045-87.1.122
Schlagwörter	Racial Bias; Correctional Institutions; Institutionalized Persons; Disproportionate Representation; Children; Adolescents; Youth; Public Policy; At Risk Persons; Role of Education; Social Justice; Social Bias; Juvenile Justice; Delinquency; Child Welfare; Minority Group Children; Homosexuality; Sexual Orientation; Sexual Identity; Gender Bias; Safety; Employment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Jugendstrafvollzug; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Öffentliche Ordnung; Risikogruppe; Bildungsauftrag; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Kriminalität; Kindeswohl; Homosexualität; Sexuelle Orientierung; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Geschlechterstereotyp; Sicherheit; Dienstverhältnis
Abstract	In this essay Erica R. Meiners argues that those committed to dismantling our nation's deep and racialized investments in policing and imprisoning must analyze how the flexible category of "the child," and its figurative powers, operate in complex ways to punish communities and naturalize and expand criminalization and surveillance. Never static or neutral, childhood and its attendant characteristics, for example, innocence, are not available to all, and many, including young people, are harmed by the very laws and institutions charged with safeguarding minors. In outlining the malleability of developmental categories rooted in racialized and heteropatriarchal foundations--"child," "juvenile"--and providing examples of how the rhetorical clout of the child is deployed to strengthen laws and policies that often do little to protect young people but instead augment carcerality, Meiners suggests that dismantling the carceral state in our classrooms and communities requires a more rigorous theorization of the artifact of the child. (As Provided).
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