Juvenile Transfers as Ritual Sacrifice
Legally Constructing the Child Scapegoat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8113333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jordan J Titus (University of Alaska Fairbanks, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 116-132 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1541-2040 • E-ISSN: 1556-9330 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1541204004273313 |
| OpenAlex | W2171273234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article explores the dramaturgy of juvenile transfer provisions for the vestiges of ancient practices of child sacrifice that they reveal. Relying on theories by Girard, the social discord caused by young children who commit violent criminal acts is examined as a sacrificial crisis. The rhetorical demonization of the child criminal is described as their expurgation (as “Other”), the means by which their status is converted to scapegoat for the innocents their surrogacy benefits. Rather than deterrence or retribution functions, the legal response to children’s normative violations that involves transferring children to adult criminal court are presented here as an institutionalized and symbolic form of sacrifice to resolve a cultural crisis and ensure societal cohesion
Aesthetics · Commit · Criminology · Cruelty · Demonization · Dramaturgy · Economic Justice · Normative · Political science · Retributive justice · Rhetorical question · Sacrifice · Scapegoat · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy
The child savers
American Youth Violence
Violence and the Sacred
Childhood
Bad Kids
Forgotten children
The Demonization of Children
Crime and the Community
Mobilization Through Interpellation
Condemn a Little More, Understand a Little Less’
The Unprecedented Epidemic in Youth Violence
Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica
The social construction of reality
Juvenile Transfers to the Criminal Justice System
Public Perceptions of Childhood Criminality
The News Media, the Problem Frame, and the Production of Fear
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |