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100 _aNichols. Naomi
245 _aThe social organization of access to justice for youth in 'unsafe' urban neighbourhoods
260 _c2018
300 _ap.79-96.
362 _aFeb
520 _aDrawing on the feminist sociological approach, institutional ethnography, this article reveals how young people in a designated neighbourhood improvement area in Toronto, Canada, experience reduced access to justice. Young peopleメs stories about their interactions with the police in their neighbourhood ground an analysis of the dispersal of justice in large urban centres as shaped by and constitutive of the social relations of race, gender and class. While the research proceeds from young peopleメs knowledge of their work and lives, the foci of analysis are the objectified forms of thought and action that produce the individual accounts young people share. The research finds that young peopleメs experiences of diminished relational fairness in their encounters with the police reduce the degree to which they expect full and equal access to other juridical and administrative public institutions and processes. Ultimately, the stateメs efforts to produce and manage public safety, as a bureaucratic phenomenon, undermines embodied experiences of safety and access to justice for young people who live in economically disadvantaged and racialized urban neighbourhoods. - Rep
650 _aYouth
650 _aUrban neighbourhoods
650 _aJustice
773 _aSocial & Legal Studies
909 _a116537
999 _c116531
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