Juvenile delinquency in the interdiscourse
The DFG-funded project examines the thesis of increasing punitivity that is widespread in socio-educational and criminological literature: compared to the 1970s and 1980s, successively more rigid forms of behavior with regard to crime are being advocated and implemented. A high degree of punitive thinking has become established, which focuses on social discipline and the protection of society from crime. The socio-pedagogical focus on education and resocialization has been revised or overshadowed as a result.
Project description
The thesis of increasing punitivity is widespread in socio-educational and criminological literature: Compared to the 1970s and 1980s, successively more rigid ways of dealing with crime are being advocated and implemented. A high degree of punitive thinking has become established, which is based on social discipline and the protection of society from crime. The socio-pedagogical focus on education and resocialization has been revised or overshadowed as a result.
Although individual academic observers articulate doubts about this thesis, it is often assumed to be valid without closer empirical examination. The planned project will therefore use the example of juvenile delinquency to analyze the relationship between socio-pedagogical and police interpretations of delinquency over the past decades and whether and in what way a development towards more punitiveness has taken place. This is done by qualitatively addressing two research questions: On the one hand, a discourse-analytical evaluation of practice-related journals will be used to determine the interpretations of juvenile delinquency in socio-educational and police journals. On the other hand, on this basis it will be determined with what justification it is possible to speak of a "punitive change". Punitivity is interpreted as a complex of special interpretations of crime related to punishment.
Everything at a glance
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Duration
01.05.2011 - 30.04.2013 -
Research areas
Juvenile delinquency -
Funding
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Team | Publications
Project management
- Prof. Dr. Bernd Dollinger, University of Siegen
- Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidt-Semisch, University of Bremen
Research assistant
- Dipl.-Päd. Matthias Rudolph, University of Siegen
- Dollinger, B./Urban, M. (2012): The analysis of interdiscourses as a form of qualitative social research. A basic and project report using the example of juvenile delinquency. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung (FQS), Vol. 13, Issue 2, Art. 25. (http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1786/3383).
- Dollinger, B./Rudolph, M./Schmidt-Semisch, H./Urban, M. (2012a): Von Spitzeln, Zeitbomben und der sozialen Feuerwehr: Die Analyse von Interdiskursen und Kollektivsymbolen am Beispiel von Jugendkriminalität in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren. In: S. Fegter/F. Kessl/A. Langer/M. Ott/D. Rothe/D. Wrana (eds.): Educational discourse research. VS: Wiesbaden.
- Dollinger, B./Rudolph, M./Schmidt-Semisch, H./Urban, M. (2012b): Interim report of the project "Juvenile delinquency in interdiscourse". (http://www.ipp.uni-bremen.de/srv/www.ipp.uni-bremen.de/web/downloads/abteilung2/projekte/Zwischenbericht_Jugendkriminalitaet_im_Interdiskurs.pdf).
- Dollinger, B./Rudolph, M./Schmidt-Semisch, H./Urban, M. (2012c): A golden age of integration? The representation of juvenile delinquency in police and socio-educational journals of the 1970s. In: Criminological Journal 4/2012, pp. 279-297.
- Rudolph, M. (2013): Symbolic representations of juvenile delinquency in social work journals between 1970 and 2009. in: Siegen Sozial (Si:So) 2/2013.
- Dollinger, B./Rudolph, M./Schmidt-Semisch, H./Urban, M.: Jugend und Kriminalität - Symbolisierungen von Devianz in Zeitschriften der Jugendhilfe und Polizei. In: A. Groenemeyer/D. Hoffmann (eds.): Youth as a social problem - problems of youth? Wiesbaden. 2013. S. 140-157.
- Dollinger, B.: Social work in politics. A discourse analysis of parliamentary debates using the example of juvenile delinquency. In: New Practice. 2014. 44. vol. p. 439-454.
- Dollinger, B./Rudolph, M./Schmidt-Semisch, H./Urban, M.: Making punishment appear reasonable: police and social work professionals' representations of delinquency in the context of a 'punitive turn'. In: H. Hess/H. Schmidt-Semisch (eds.): Die Sinnprovinz der Kriminalität. On the dynamics of a social field. Wiesbaden. 2014. S. 165-186.
- Dollinger, B./Rudolph, M./Schmidt-Semisch/Urban, M.: Von Marionettentheatern und Teufelskreisen. Punitive developments in social work and the police over the past four decades. In: P. Bauer/B. Dollinger/C. Füssenhäuser/F. Kessl/S. Neumann (eds.): Practices of inclusion and exclusion in social work. Weinheim. 2015. S. 92-106.
- Dollinger, B./Lampe, D./Rudolph. M./Schmidt-Semisch, H.: Is German criminal policy populist? A conceptual and empirical approach. In: Criminological Journal. 2015. 47. vol. p. 3-21.
- Lampe, D./Rudolph, M.(2016): Juvenile delinquency as a result of political construction processes. In: J. Luedtke/C. Wiezorek (eds.): Youth policies: How does society deal with 'its' youth? Weinheim.