Boys will be boys : masculinism and the juvenile justice system

Abstract

The impact of gender-related assumptions on welfare's management of male juveniles in trouble with the law has hitherto been afforded minimal discussion by practitioners and academics alike. With particular reference to white male youth, this article argues that social welfare values and practice often reinforce and collude with conceptions of "appropriate" youthful masculinity that are intrinsically oppressive of both young and adult women. Notwithsanding some of the challenges presented therein, it is suggested that areas of social work such as intermediate Treatment have a responsibility to scrutinise their practice in a more systematic anti-sexist way.

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