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  • The indecent demands of accountability: trauma, marginalisation, and moral agency in youth restorative conferencing

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    Wood, William R
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    Wood, William
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    2020
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    In this article I explore the concept of accountability for young people in youth restorative conferencing. Definitions of accountability in research and programme literature demonstrate significant variation between expectations of young people to admit harms, make amends, address the causes of their offending, and desist from future offending. Such variation is problematic in terms of aligning conferenc‐ ing goals with accountability expectations. I first draw from research that suggests appeals to normative frameworks such as accountability may not be useful for some young people with significant histories of victimisation, ...
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    In this article I explore the concept of accountability for young people in youth restorative conferencing. Definitions of accountability in research and programme literature demonstrate significant variation between expectations of young people to admit harms, make amends, address the causes of their offending, and desist from future offending. Such variation is problematic in terms of aligning conferenc‐ ing goals with accountability expectations. I first draw from research that suggests appeals to normative frameworks such as accountability may not be useful for some young people with significant histories of victimisation, abuse, neglect, and trauma. I then examine problems in accountability for young people that are highly marginalised or ‘redundant’ in terms of systemic exclusion from economic and social forms of capital. These two issues – trauma on the micro level and social marginalisation on the macro level – suggest problems of getting to accountability for some young people. I also argue trauma and social marginalisation present spe‐ cific problems for thinking about young offenders as ‘moral subjects’ and conferenc‐ ing as an effective mechanism of moralising social control. I conclude by suggesting a clear distinction between accountability and responsibility is necessary to disen‐ tangle the conflation of misdeeds from the acute social, psychological, and develop‐ mental needs of some young offenders.
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    Journal Title
    The International Journal of Restorative Justice
    Volume
    3
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5553/ijrj.000038
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    © 2020 Eleven international publishing. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Criminology
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/399385
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