Dorthe Marie Søndergaard & Jette Raundahl Kofoed (red.): Mobning gentænkt

Anmeldes af Ann-Karina Henriksen &nbsp

AT LEVE MED VOLD: Om seksualitet og vold blandt unge i Cape Town

The focus of the article is upon the relation between gender and violence as an aspect of everyday practice. It is suggested that strategies for living with violence inform gender perceptions. The article is based on research in Cape Town, South Africa and consentrates on how adolescents there speak about violence and strategies for safety. South Africa is renowned for high levels of violence such as rape or death by gunfire. Rather than focus on these violent acts from the perspective of either the victim or perpetrator, the focus lies in the implications for the witnesses, who live with the threat of violence in their daily lives. Narratives related to violence and strategies for safety show how violence manifests itself. The authors argue that women and men are discursively informed to respond to and perceive violence differently. Men are agents of violence as protectors and perpetrators, and women are pacified and potential victims. Furthermore the study emphasises that violence maintains patriarchal gender roles and thereby becomes a major barrier to rethinking gender perceptions and gender equality. &nbsp

New system responses to juvenile crime: Experiences from Denmark

AbstractIn the Nordic countries, social work and child welfare interventions have traditionally played a central role in preventing children’s involvement in future crime. Hence, child welfare authorities, rather than the criminal justice system, have handled cases with children involved in crime. However, in 2019, Denmark enacted a new policy reform that constitutes a radical break with this long-standing tradition of welfarism. The policy reform introduced court-like proceedings for children under the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Cases concerning juveniles aged 10 to 17 who commit serious offences are now handled by Youth Crime Boards and the Youth Probation Service. In this article, we explore the complexities of these new responses to juvenile crime in Denmark. We do this by combining quantitative analyses of administrative data with qualitative interviews with case managers. We argue that the new Danish system is highly complex and targets a diverse group of children with punitive measures. With this, we hope to provide insights relevant to policy makers and practitioners implementing new juvenile crime prevention strategies.&nbsp

Treatment in the context of confinement: – understanding the barriers and possibilities for facilitating change in at-risk youth

AbstractIn this article the authors present a meta-synthesis of their studies on secure institutions in Sweden and Denmark. The aim of the metasynthesis is to explore how the context of confinement shapes the possibilities for providing treatment and positive change for at-risk youth. Drawing on meta-synthesis methodology the authors extract content from nine studies published in 20 articles. We highlight three dimensions, which are a) treatment practices and behavioural regulation, b) the carceral materialities and sociomaterial practices, and c) relations. We argue that while treatment is curtailed by confinement, improvements can be made to support more successful change among at-risk youth and smooth their transition into adulthood. Artiklen præsenterer en metasyntese af ni studier om sikrede institutioner i Danmark og Sverige. Formålet med metasyntesen er at undersøge, hvordan frihedsberøvelse rammesætter behandling og forandringsarbejde med unge i udsatte positioner. Forfatterne analyserer 20 artikler fordelt på ni studier, de selv har gennemført. Analysen har fokus på tre centrale forhold; a) behandlingsarbejde og adfærdsregulering, b) materialitet og sociomaterielle praktikker, og c) relationer. Vi argumenterer for, at behandling påvirkes af frihedsberøvelse, men med forbedringer kan behandling på sikret institution bidrage til at skabe positiv forandring og sikre de unges overgang til voksenliv

«Men hun er da dansk?». Om pigers institutionelle forhandlinger af køn og etnicitet

Sammendrag I artiklen undersøges det, hvordan køn og etnicitet forhandles af piger anbragt på sikrede institutioner. International forskning har i stigende grad undersøgt pigers involvering i kriminalitet og gadekultur og belyst, hvordan disse tilhørsforhold former køn og etnicitet. Det er imidlertid ikke grundigt undersøgt, hvordan disse identifikationer og tilhørsforhold formes i mødet med professionelle inden for socialt arbejde. Med afsæt i en kvalitativ undersøgelse om piger anbragt på sikrede institutioner analyseres dette møde gennem to cases. Ved hjælp af poststrukturalistisk subjektiveringsteori analyseres identitet som skiftende sociale orienteringer mod sikkerhed, samhørighed og handlekraft. I konklusionen peges der på, hvordan en forståelse for identitet som flydende og foranderlig er relevant for velfærdsstatens opsøgende og behandlende indsatser for udsatte og kriminalitetstruede unge

Promoting Gender Sensitivity in Social Work

The article reflects on teaching gender theory to students who are not enrolled in a gender programme. It argues that learning can be facilitated to social work students by tapping into their own gendered experiences and by linking gender to wider concerns about social inequality. The article draws on personal notes from teaching gender and social diversity to social work students. In this context, two main obstacles are identified: anti-feminism and individualization. Theseobstacles can be addressed productively. First by bringing students’ gendered experiences and social categorisations into play, and second, by demonstrating how social problems are shaped by gender structures and unequal power relations