Sociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté ()
Performance de l’action publique et carrières de jeunes délinquants
Abstract
This article examines the recent evolutions of juvenile in the French context where public action must prove its performance as regards fighting insecurity and public policing. It considers the redefining of the institutional treatment of juvenile deliquency through the evolution of the appliance of penal placing and more particularly the creation of reinforced educational centres and closed educational centres. It proposes, on the basis of an empirical analysis, a typology which enables to deconstruct a globalizing representation, conveyed by public discourse, of a multi recidivist young offender who sets up delinquent behaviours as a way of life. This typology offers a view on those youths' logics of action. It enables to identify factors playing a part in the taking up of a delinquent path but also levers susceptible of encouraging a process of withdrawal from delinquency.
