International audienceThis article discusses gendered medical and psychological discourses of risk and risk taking concerning juveniles in 20th Century Belgium. It examines more in particular the construction of such discourses through daily practices of 'scientific' observation of juvenile delinquents within Belgium’s central observation centres for boys (Mol) and for girls (Saint-Servais) between 1913 and 1965. Both observation centres were established shortly after the enactment of the Belgian Child Protection Act of 1912, that introduced the instrument of social and medical-psychological inquiry in the judicial treatment of delinquent youth. This not only reflected a significant shift in the problematisation of juven...
The establishment of the Central Observation Institute in Mol in 1913 marks the introduction of scie...
Cet article aborde la dimension genrée des discours médicaux et psychologiques sur le risque et la p...
In her recently published thesis, Brussels-based pedagogue and criminologist, Jenneke Christiaens, g...
This article discusses gendered medical and psychological discourses of risk and risk taking concern...
Marginality is a social construction supported by discourses, procedures, or rulings that determine ...
The first Belgian Child Protection Act, which passed in 1912, introduced the instrument of social an...
International audienceThis article is based on a sociological research on the role of the psychiatri...
A juvenile criminal-type ? Theorising the delinquent body in England, c. 1830-1865 This article cons...
This chapter focuses on the influence of experts and various forms of scientific expertise on the Be...
International audienceFemale violence has long been eclipsed in public discourses and representation...
This article is focused on the study of the medico-legal debates that preceded the introduction of t...
Cet article propose d’observer les mineurs présumés « exposés à des dangers moraux ou physiques » qu...
peer reviewedThis article deals with the determinants of juvenile delinquency, taking as starting po...
Youth assistance and protection in the French Community of Belgium is mainly structured around two m...
International audienceThis article seeks to study the work of forensic doctors who undertake examina...
The establishment of the Central Observation Institute in Mol in 1913 marks the introduction of scie...
Cet article aborde la dimension genrée des discours médicaux et psychologiques sur le risque et la p...
In her recently published thesis, Brussels-based pedagogue and criminologist, Jenneke Christiaens, g...
This article discusses gendered medical and psychological discourses of risk and risk taking concern...
Marginality is a social construction supported by discourses, procedures, or rulings that determine ...
The first Belgian Child Protection Act, which passed in 1912, introduced the instrument of social an...
International audienceThis article is based on a sociological research on the role of the psychiatri...
A juvenile criminal-type ? Theorising the delinquent body in England, c. 1830-1865 This article cons...
This chapter focuses on the influence of experts and various forms of scientific expertise on the Be...
International audienceFemale violence has long been eclipsed in public discourses and representation...
This article is focused on the study of the medico-legal debates that preceded the introduction of t...
Cet article propose d’observer les mineurs présumés « exposés à des dangers moraux ou physiques » qu...
peer reviewedThis article deals with the determinants of juvenile delinquency, taking as starting po...
Youth assistance and protection in the French Community of Belgium is mainly structured around two m...
International audienceThis article seeks to study the work of forensic doctors who undertake examina...
The establishment of the Central Observation Institute in Mol in 1913 marks the introduction of scie...
Cet article aborde la dimension genrée des discours médicaux et psychologiques sur le risque et la p...
In her recently published thesis, Brussels-based pedagogue and criminologist, Jenneke Christiaens, g...