Conceptualizing Young People's Strategies of Resistance to Offending as ‘Active Resilience’
This paper draws on the Quest for Identity study, which comprised secondary analysis of interviews with young people who have never offended (‘resisters') and young people who have offended, then ceased (‘desisters'), as well as peer led focus groups with resisters. However, the paper focuses solely on the semi-structured interviews with 62 young resisters and addresses the research question as to how they maintain their resistance to offending. Contrary to the passivity associated with non-offending, it is argued that in maintaining their resistance to offending young resisters engage in what I term ‘active resilience'. This is exemplified by a range of strategies employed by resisters, which includes: managing offending peers, taking temporal leaps, ‘othering' offenders and telling atrocity stories. The concept of active resilience resonates with the key theoretical perspective associated with the social studies of childhood, which characterises young people as agentic social actors, and also with the resilience literature, with its recent perceptible shift towards acknowledging young people's contribution to their own resilience. The paper concludes with the implications of the findings for policy, practice and future research
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2013
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Authors: | Murray, Cathy |
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[2013]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Coping-Strategie | Coping strategy | Jugendliche | Youth | Junge Arbeitskräfte | Young workers | Strategisches Management | Strategic management | Jugendarbeitslosigkeit | Youth unemployment | Großbritannien | United Kingdom |
Description of contents: | Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 40, Issue 1, pp. 115-132, 2010 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 2010 erstellt Volltext nicht verfügbar |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095234
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