Contested Vulnerability: A Case Study of Girls in secure care
Contested Vulnerability: A Case Study of Girls in secure care
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DOI：
10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.047
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发表时间：
2018-05-01
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3.3
通讯作者：
Ellis, Katie
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作者：
Ellis, Katie
2015年的数据显示，来自英格兰和威尔士的205名儿童进入了安全的住所。47%的人被安置是因为他们被还押或因犯有严重罪行而被判刑。43%的人被社会服务机构置于儿童福利令之下。剩下的10%是由当地当局以刑事司法理由保护的。本文以安全看护中的女孩为例，探讨了对同时被认为是“脆弱”和“麻烦”的年轻人的理解。虽然有关安全住宿的政策声称它提供了一种治疗性干预，帮助年轻人解决问题并学习适当的应对机制，但它也通过将他们与根深蒂固的世界隔离开来，使他们保持“安全”。通过详细的人种学田野调查，本文探讨了女孩生活在通常不受审查的环境中的经历，并展示了她们在一个旨在促进改革的机构中与之共事的观点。值得注意的是，研究结果显示，女孩拒绝被归因于她们的“脆弱”标签，相反，她们觉得脆弱更适合用生活经验来定义，而不是年龄。通过审视女孩自己对她们安全护理的复杂道路的观点，本文将反驳童年和脆弱的捆绑，并认为这样的行为剥夺了女孩的权利：剥夺了旨在帮助她们的服务的权利。
Figures from 2015 show that two hundred and five children entered secure accommodation from England and Wales. 47% were placed because they were on remand or sentenced for committing a serious offence. 43% were placed by social services under a child welfare order. The remaining 10% were secured by their local authority on criminal justice grounds. This paper uses the example of girls in secure care to explore understandings that are applied to young people considered 'vulnerable' and 'troublesome' simultaneously. While policy around secure accommodation claims that it offers a therapeutic intervention, to help young people work through their problems and learn appropriate coping mechanisms, it also keeps them 'safe' by physically locking them away from the world in which they have been entrenched. Using detailed ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explore: the experiences of girls living in a setting usually exempt from scrutiny and showcases their views of being 'worked with' in an institution designed to enable reform. Significantly, findings show that girls rejected the 'vulnerable' label that was ascribed to them and instead felt that vulnerability was better defined by life ex" perience instead of age. By examining girl's own perspectives of their complex pathways into secure care, this paper will contest the binding of childhood and vulnerability and argue that such an act disenfranchises girl: from the services that are designed to help them.