How Children and Their Families Construct and Negotiate Risk, Safety and Danger

Harden, Jeni

doi:10.1177/0907568204047105

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“…We believe the current study sits well within similar studies of how young people perceive their neighbourhood and negotiate ways of staying safe (Backett-Milburn andHarden 2004, Turner et al 2006). This study has added to this discussion by emphasising the disadvantages young people experience when seeking to avoid ASB and by highlighting the circular nature of the contexts of stereotyping, spatial marginality and social connectivity as they relate to ASB.…”

Section: Scope For Further Worksupporting

confidence: 81%

Damned if they do, damned if they don't: negotiating the tricky context of anti-social behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods

Neary

Egan

Keenan

et al. 2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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Young people's relationship with anti-social behaviour (ASB) is complicated. While their behaviours are often stereotyped as anti-social (e.g. 'hanging about'), they also experience ASB in their neighbourhood. In this study, we explore young people's own perspectives on ASB, comparing results from 'go-along' interviews and focus groups conducted in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland. This article discusses how young people's everyday experience of ASB was contextualised by social factors such as cultural stereotyping of marginalised groups, poor social connectivity and spatial marginalisation within their neighbourhood. Furthermore, we found that these social factors were mutually reinforcing and interacted in a way that appeared to leave young people in a 'nowin' situation regarding their association with ASB. Participation in ASB and attempts to avoid such involvement were seen to involve negative consequences: participation could entail violence and spatial restrictions linked to territoriality, but avoidance could lead to being ostracised from their peer group. Regardless of involvement, young people felt that adults stereotyped them as anti-social. Our findings therefore provide support for policies and interventions aimed at reducing ASB (perpetrated by residents of all ages); in part by better ensuring that young people have a clear incentive for avoiding such behaviours.

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confidence: 81%

Damned if they do, damned if they don't: negotiating the tricky context of anti-social behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods

Neary

Egan

Keenan

et al. 2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…While studies have begun to explore children's risky play (Sandseter 2007(Sandseter , 2009 and parental reactions to such play (Little, 2010), only a few post 2000 studies have included the children's views from a qualitative perspective (Valentine, 2004;Harden, Backett-Milburn and Jackson, 2000) or the views of both parents and children (Valentine, 2004;Backett-Milburn and Harden, 2004). Harden et al (2000) suggest this is because public discourses construct children as lacking in competence about making risk judgements.…”

Section: Children Outdoor Play and Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mother and child constructions of risk in outdoor play

Allin¹,

West²,

Curry³

2014

Leisure Studies

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“…Backett-Milburn et al, 2004;Brannen et al, 2000;Čermák, 2004;Roberts, 2004.) The advantages of using visual techniques like these when interviewing on sensitive topics include dissolving the tensions of the interview situation, breaking the ice and changing the power dynamics of the situation in the interviewee's favor.…”

Section: Studying Children With Multiple Family Relationsmentioning

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Encountering ethics in studying challenging family relations

Notko

Jokinen

Kuronen

et al. 2013

Families, Relationships and Societies

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Word count: 7745 including references 3 ENCOUNTERING ETHICS IN STUDYING CHALLENGING FAMILY RELATIONS AbstractThis article focuses on ethical considerations in the study of challenging family relations. Our perspective derives from multidisciplinary family studies, including social sciences, psychology and educational science. Our concerns include why and how to apply a sensitive approach in studying challenging family relations, and what the ethical key issues are in studies of this kind. We examine questions of multiplicity in family relations, the particularity of vulnerable family relations and the roles of researchers and gatekeepers in the research process. The article is based on a research project where informants were both children and adults, and both qualitative and quantitative data was collected. We argue that doing ethically appropriate research requires much more than formal assessments or ethical board reviews. We claim that rigid ethical regulations may even prevent reaching hard-to-find families or impede the giving of a voice to those who would benefit most from being heard in family studies and in family politics.

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How Children and Their Families Construct and Negotiate Risk, Safety and Danger

Cited by 103 publications

References 13 publications

Damned if they do, damned if they don't: negotiating the tricky context of anti-social behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods

Damned if they do, damned if they don't: negotiating the tricky context of anti-social behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods

Mother and child constructions of risk in outdoor play

Encountering ethics in studying challenging family relations

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