Reclaiming the Street: The Discourse of Curfew
Reclaiming the Street: The Discourse of Curfew
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夺回街道：宵禁的话语
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1999
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M. Taylor
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H. Matthews;M. Limb;M. Taylor
1998年《犯罪和扰乱治安法》使地方当局能够对10岁以下儿童实行地方宵禁。一些言论鼓吹社会将逐步走向无法无天和道德沦丧，助长了该法。宵禁令的依据是控制和威慑的排除性原则。我们认为，宵禁的理由远不如最近的政策文件所暗示的那样明确。根据一项大规模研究得出的证据表明，街道在青年人生活中发挥的积极作用比目前讨论中所承认的更为积极。我们认为，宵禁并不能提供一条前进的道路：对年轻人来说，它强化了一种无能为力和被疏远的感觉，对成年人来说，它确立了一种使年轻人进一步脱离他们的世界的定位。在关于宵禁的整个辩论过程中，没有人试图采纳青年人的意见。我们建议，与其实行宵禁，不如采取包容性战略，鼓励青年融入社区，增强他们在环境决策中的发言权，并挑战成年人对环境的霸权。
The 1998 Crime and Disorder Act enables local authorities to put in place local street curfews for children aged under 10 years. The Act has been fuelled by discourses which present a vision of a society escalating towards lawlessness and moral decline. Curfew orders are grounded on the exclusionary principles of control and deterrence. We argue that the case for curfews is much less clear than recent policy documents suggest. Evidence based upon a large-scale study points to a more positive role of streets in the lives of young people than is acknowledged in current discussions. We propose that curfew does not offer a way forward: for young people it reinforces a sense of power-lessness and alienation and for adults it establishes a positionality which further dislocates young people from their world. Throughout the curfew debate there has been no attempt to incorporate the views of young people. We propose that, instead of curfew, what is needed are inclusionary strategies which encourage the incorporation of young people into communities, empower their voices in environmental decisionmaking, and challenge the hegemony of adulthood upon the landscape.