Ecological Ruptures and Strain: Girls, Juvenile Justice, and Phone Removal
Girls in the juvenile justice system routinely have their cell phones and internet access removed as a part of court orders. Building on feminist criminology and ecological systems theory, this paper will demonstrate that phone removal causes a rupture of girls’ digital ecology. This rupture exacerb...
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Queensland University of Technology
2022-03-01
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| description | Girls in the juvenile justice system routinely have their cell phones and internet access removed as a part of court orders. Building on feminist criminology and ecological systems theory, this paper will demonstrate that phone removal causes a rupture of girls’ digital ecology. This rupture exacerbates strains conducive to crime and victimization. Findings are generated from an ethnographic study that took place in a Northeastern United States city. Forty-two girls took part in focus groups and a series of interviews, and 22 practitioners took part in semi-structured interviews. This research shows that phones act as a positive and protective force supporting girls through feelings of safety, helping them cope with challenging events at home and on the street. Understanding the phone as a part of a broader ecology contextualizes why girls would subsequently commit crimes to restore their digital ecology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7b86fc87f69d40d4a14a8ed105794f0a2022-12-21T19:35:17ZengQueensland University of TechnologyInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy2202-79982202-80052022-03-0111112013410.5204/ijcjsd.21882488Ecological Ruptures and Strain: Girls, Juvenile Justice, and Phone RemovalMichelle Lyttle Storrod0Widener UniversityGirls in the juvenile justice system routinely have their cell phones and internet access removed as a part of court orders. Building on feminist criminology and ecological systems theory, this paper will demonstrate that phone removal causes a rupture of girls’ digital ecology. This rupture exacerbates strains conducive to crime and victimization. Findings are generated from an ethnographic study that took place in a Northeastern United States city. Forty-two girls took part in focus groups and a series of interviews, and 22 practitioners took part in semi-structured interviews. This research shows that phones act as a positive and protective force supporting girls through feelings of safety, helping them cope with challenging events at home and on the street. Understanding the phone as a part of a broader ecology contextualizes why girls would subsequently commit crimes to restore their digital ecology.https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/2188phonessocial ecologygirlsjuvenile justice |
| spellingShingle | Michelle Lyttle Storrod Ecological Ruptures and Strain: Girls, Juvenile Justice, and Phone Removal International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy phones social ecology girls juvenile justice |
| title | Ecological Ruptures and Strain: Girls, Juvenile Justice, and Phone Removal |
| title_full | Ecological Ruptures and Strain: Girls, Juvenile Justice, and Phone Removal |
| title_fullStr | Ecological Ruptures and Strain: Girls, Juvenile Justice, and Phone Removal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ecological Ruptures and Strain: Girls, Juvenile Justice, and Phone Removal |
| title_short | Ecological Ruptures and Strain: Girls, Juvenile Justice, and Phone Removal |
| title_sort | ecological ruptures and strain girls juvenile justice and phone removal |
| topic | phones social ecology girls juvenile justice |
| url | https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/2188 |
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