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Young people ‘as risk’ or young people ‘at risk’ : Comparing discourses of anti-social behaviour in England and Victoria

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Dominant discourses regarding concerns with anti-social behaviour in England and Victoria, Australia, reveal counterposed perspectives; the former positioning anti-social behaviour as an issue of law and order and an extension of concerns with crime and victimization, and the latter emphasizing concerns with the vulnerability of the perpetrator. These opposing perspectives inevitably give rise to markedly different policies and interventions. In England, an emphasis on the needs of the victim prioritizes the prevention of particular behaviours, whilst interventions in Victoria seek to address the needs of the perpetrator that are seen to contribute to or result from anti-social behaviour. To illustrate this contrast, the paper highlights the particular effects of these contradictory discourses on young people, and in doing so suggests a need to be wary of the impact of resultant approaches on those who may be most susceptible to committing anti-social behaviour, or to having their behaviour labelled as such.

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Critical Social Policy

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2011

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English

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02610183

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Vol. 31 no. 3, August 2011.pp. 388-409

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Crime
comparative
Australia
Comparing discourses of anti-social behaviour

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