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Implementing social policy through the criminal justice system: youth, prisons, and community-oriented policing in Nicaragua

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  • Julienne Weegels

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Nicaragua has implemented a community-oriented policing model in addition to providing a prison system that is based on the premise of prisoners’ re-education. Though these are part of the criminal justice system, they are also presented as social policies with the objective of social (re)insertion of marginalised urban youth particularly. On the premise that detention is temporary and beneficial, these policies claim to prevent (youth) criminality and to reform its perpetrators. Yet they mostly push these youths into a spiral of continued state interventions. Through an analysis of youth-oriented public policy and an examination of the expansion of criminal justice services, complemented by ethnographic research material collected with young (former) prisoners, this article demonstrates how and why social policy for youth is being carried out by the criminal justice system. This development is underpinned by the securitisation of social policy and a political culture of social conservatism that renders marginalised youth unworthy of social protection.

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  • Julienne Weegels, 2018. "Implementing social policy through the criminal justice system: youth, prisons, and community-oriented policing in Nicaragua," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(1), pages 57-70, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:oxdevs:v:46:y:2018:i:1:p:57-70
    DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2017.1391192
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    1. Altamirano Rayo, Giorleny & Mosinger, Eric S. & Thaler, Kai M., 2024. "Statebuilding and indigenous rights implementation: Political incentives, social movement pressure, and autonomy policy in Central America," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).

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