@article{ref1,
title="Rules, skills and autonomy: pathological concepts of youth offending in Portuguese juvenile justice and custody",
journal="International journal of law, crime and justice",
year="2018",
author="Zoettl, Peter Anton",
volume="52",
number="",
pages="1-9",
abstract="Based on research in a Youth Detention Centre, this article discusses the concept of autonomy within the treatment model of Portuguese juvenile justice. On the one hand, &quot;dysfunctional&quot; forms of autonomy are held responsible for a youth's offending tendencies, while, on the other hand, acquiring &quot;proper&quot; autonomy constitutes one of the principal objectives of a juvenile's confinement. Both, supposedly different, forms of autonomy are tied, respectively, to the absence or presence of discipline, rules and certain values in a youth's upbringing and socialization process. While this concept of autonomy could be linked to a number of scholarly theories on modern rationalities of crime governance, the article emphasizes the importance of paying attention to the &quot;local criminologies&quot; of the Portuguese law, judiciary and custody institutions, pointing to the persistence of a pathological model of youth offending within otherwise changing rationales.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1756-0616",
doi="10.1016/j.ijlcj.2017.08.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2017.08.001"
}