Practitioners' discourse of juvenile delinquency at a child and youth care centre in the Western Cape from 1990 to 2020
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kinnes, Irvin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Swanepoel, Loulou | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-08T11:22:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-08T11:22:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2025-04-08T10:57:11Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the evolving discourse of juvenile delinquency among practitioners who documented their observations and interactions with juveniles from a Western Cape Child and Youth Care Centre. It employs the Foucauldian discourse analysis approach when analysing the content of thirty learner casefiles from 1990 to 2020. The discourses are analysed in terms of shifts in power over the institutional care of the children brought on by the new democratic government, childcare and justice policies, and the coinciding growth of the restorative approach to juvenile justice. The discourse themes examined include how practitioners consistently conceptualised the juvenile and their delinquency across the thirty years. This was seen in terms of the juvenile's medical health, their ‘criminality', substance use, gang involvement, and tendency to abscond. The juveniles' history of alternative care placements was also frequently documented. Practices eclipsed by the democratic government and restorative justice movement include punitive forms of punishment at the facility and the need for documentation of the child's race. However, only after the enactment of the Children's Act no.38 of 2005, as amended (2010), did a restorative approach to juvenile care, outside of education and vocational training, take significant precedence. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Swanepoel, L. (2024). <i>Practitioners' discourse of juvenile delinquency at a child and youth care centre in the Western Cape from 1990 to 2020</i>. (). ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41365 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Swanepoel, Loulou. <i>"Practitioners' discourse of juvenile delinquency at a child and youth care centre in the Western Cape from 1990 to 2020."</i> ., ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41365 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Swanepoel, L. 2024. Practitioners' discourse of juvenile delinquency at a child and youth care centre in the Western Cape from 1990 to 2020. . ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41365 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Swanepoel, Loulou AB - This paper examines the evolving discourse of juvenile delinquency among practitioners who documented their observations and interactions with juveniles from a Western Cape Child and Youth Care Centre. It employs the Foucauldian discourse analysis approach when analysing the content of thirty learner casefiles from 1990 to 2020. The discourses are analysed in terms of shifts in power over the institutional care of the children brought on by the new democratic government, childcare and justice policies, and the coinciding growth of the restorative approach to juvenile justice. The discourse themes examined include how practitioners consistently conceptualised the juvenile and their delinquency across the thirty years. This was seen in terms of the juvenile's medical health, their ‘criminality', substance use, gang involvement, and tendency to abscond. The juveniles' history of alternative care placements was also frequently documented. Practices eclipsed by the democratic government and restorative justice movement include punitive forms of punishment at the facility and the need for documentation of the child's race. However, only after the enactment of the Children's Act no.38 of 2005, as amended (2010), did a restorative approach to juvenile care, outside of education and vocational training, take significant precedence. DA - 2024 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - public law LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2024 T1 - Practitioners' discourse of juvenile delinquency at a child and youth care centre in the Western Cape from 1990 to 2020 TI - Practitioners' discourse of juvenile delinquency at a child and youth care centre in the Western Cape from 1990 to 2020 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41365 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41365 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Swanepoel L. Practitioners' discourse of juvenile delinquency at a child and youth care centre in the Western Cape from 1990 to 2020. []. ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law, 2024 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41365 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Public Law | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Law | |
| dc.subject | public law | |
| dc.title | Practitioners' discourse of juvenile delinquency at a child and youth care centre in the Western Cape from 1990 to 2020 | |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | MPhil |