Labeling and Construction of Vulnerable Young People: Mad, Bad, Sad or Fad, Exercises of Construction

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Mad, Bad, Sad or Fad^ Labelling of Vulnerable Young People

Cathy Phillips

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Social construction of vulnerable young people^ ^

Mad: young people and mental illness

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Bad: young people as “offenders”

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Sad: young people as victims of abuse and neglect

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Fad: the “latest” thing and the construction ofcrime

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Empowering or Disempowering?

Bad: young people as “offenders”

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Assumptions about “offenders”

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Assumptions shape how professionals, the “system” andthe public (and media) react to those young people.

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Trigger processes that induce the very behaviour thatwas anticipated, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sad: abuse and neglect

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Children and Young People as victims

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Looked After Children are at greater risk ofcriminalisation

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Young people in the Looked After system often suffer dueto lower expectations and being lost in the system,resulting in being re-victimised.

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Questions?