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Things left unwritten: interview accounts versus institutional texts in a case of detention home violence
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Abstract To write about clients is an established routine in countless institutional settings, regardless of the fact that clients themselves seldom feel that the produced texts mirror or summarize their experiences. But what, more specifically, is left unwritten when staff starts typing on the keyboard to i... mehr
To write about clients is an established routine in countless institutional settings, regardless of the fact that clients themselves seldom feel that the produced texts mirror or summarize their experiences. But what, more specifically, is left unwritten when staff starts typing on the keyboard to insert a piece of daily life into the computer? This article draws on data on violent events in Swedish detention homes, covering, on the one hand, interview accounts collected by ethnographic researchers and, on the other hand, formal journal reports on the "same" event written by staff. The analysis of one case exemplifies what written versions of a violent ward drama omit or transform: staff members' "separation work" of the fighting actors and their local manufacturing of accountability, the involved actors' conflict explanations in terms of ethnicity, gang culture, and "the first blow", young people's way of linking their self-control to the institution's privilege system, and moral emotions as well as the significance of crucial details in the depicted course of events. The argument is not that staff should merely improve their routines of documenting events to really cover these or other facets of social life that are left behind at a detention home. Rather, the article attempts to explore why and in what sense institutional writing is incompatible with more informal, personal, and local accounting procedures.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Schweden; Haftbedingung; Gewalt; Dokumentation; Ethnographie; Interview; Institution; Text; Straflager
Klassifikation
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
soziale Probleme
Information und Dokumentation, Bibliotheken, Archive
Kriminalsoziologie, Rechtssoziologie, Kriminologie
Freie Schlagwörter
casebook journals; detention home; producing clients; total institution; written records
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 248-258
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 1
Heftthema
"Producing people" in documents and meetings in human service organizations
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)