Mapping a Process of Negotiated Identity among Incarcerated Male Juvenile Offenders

Autor/inn/en	Abrams, Laura S.; Hyun, Anna
Titel	Mapping a Process of Negotiated Identity among Incarcerated Male Juvenile Offenders
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 41 (2009) 1, S.26-52 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X08327522
Schlagwörter	Futures (of Society); Correctional Institutions; Ethnography; Adolescents; Institutionalized Persons; Males; Delinquency; Identification (Psychology); Longitudinal Studies; Interviews; Adjustment (to Environment); Power Structure; Criminals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Future; Society; Zukunft; Jugendstrafvollzug; Ethnografie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Kriminalität; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Straftäter
Abstract	Building on theories of youth identity transitions, this study maps a process of negotiated identity among incarcerated young men. Data are drawn from ethnographic study of three juvenile correctional institutions and longitudinal semistructured interviews with facility residents. Cross-case analysis of 10 cases that finds youth offenders adapted to the correctional world either with ease or difficulty depending on their professed criminal identifications and their ability to locate a sense of personal power within the institution. Youth also employed a set of strategies to contend with treatment discourses challenging them to reexamine their prior selves and envision alternative future identity possibilities. These strategies shape three identified patterns of identity transition: "self synthesis," "situational self-transformation," and "self-preservation." The findings highlight youths' efforts to retain a positive view of the self in response to challenges to professed identities and reveal various styles of identity transitions occurring in involuntary institutional contexts. (Contains 5 notes, 2 tables, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10