Comparing Juvenile Justice Systems: Towards a Qualitative Research Project in East Asia

Travers, Max

doi:10.1007/s11417-012-9152-0

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“…Comparative qualitative research on crime and criminal justice in Asia encompasses ethnographic work on issues ranging from policing to prison life (Adorjan and Chui, 2012; Johnson, 2002; Martin, 2007). Travers (2013) criticises comparative research studies that employ western theories alone, calling for an interpretive approach to understanding the shared commonalities amongst the juvenile justice systems of closely linked East Asian societies. He argues that by comparing East Asian societies against ‘an international (Western) standard’, researchers are neglecting cultures and institutions within and across East Asian societies (Travers, 2013: 121).…”

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“…Travers (2013) criticises comparative research studies that employ western theories alone, calling for an interpretive approach to understanding the shared commonalities amongst the juvenile justice systems of closely linked East Asian societies. He argues that by comparing East Asian societies against ‘an international (Western) standard’, researchers are neglecting cultures and institutions within and across East Asian societies (Travers, 2013: 121). New concepts and themes for understanding the criminal justice systems in those societies need to be developed in conjunction with reference to western theories (Zhang, 2008).…”

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Feeling alive: Voices of incarcerated youth in We Are Alive

Tang

2017

Crime, Media, Culture

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This article presents a case study of a documentary film to demonstrate the need to look beyond conventions for insight into youth incarceration. Yau Ching’s (2010) We Are Alive documents a series of media production workshops conducted in juvenile correctional centres and training centres in Hong Kong, Macao and Sapporo, Japan. We Are Alive is a significant media text for analysis for two reasons. First, it is a youth-led documentary that offers a glimpse into settings that are often inaccessible to researchers, and second, it adopts a comparative perspective on three East Asian societies. The film offers rich data for sociological analysis as a point of access to understanding the lives of young people detained in correctional institutions in Asia. In analysing it, this article engages the contesting issues of social conformity, criminal justice, youth resistance and teenage masculinities and femininities through a close reading informed by a theoretical matrix comprising queer theory and cultural studies in an inter-Asian context.

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