Sketches from a Juvenile Justice Centre

Matías Cordero Arce is a Chilean independent researcher and a full-time educator, since 2014, at a Juvenile Justice Centre in the Basque Country (Spain). He holds an LLB from the Catholic University of Chile and practiced law for a few years in Chile before moving to the Basque Country, where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology of Law from the University of the Basque Country. He has presented, lectured, and published on issues related to children’s rights studies and childhood studies and is the author of Hacia un Discurso Emancipador de los Derechos de las Niñas y los Niños (Lima, Ifejant).

• .- 1. Introduction.- 2. To Change or Not to Change (…the “Young Offender”).- 3. Agency and Structure.- 4. Between Authority and Authoritarianism: From Everyday Power Struggles to Physical Restraints.- 5. “Education”: Compulsory and Controlling, Caring, Vulnerable.- 6. Discipline, Government and Developmentalism (and the Relationships in their Cracks).- 7. Play and Work, Through Playfulness.- 8. Deschooling Juvenile Justice Centre.- 9. Unconcluding Remarks.

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