The Punishable Child in Sweden—The Tidö Agreement from a Children’s Rights Perspective

IF 17.7 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI:10.3390/socsci13040215

Jeanette Sundhall, Sandra Hillén

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The discourse that has so far dominated in Sweden, and which has manifested itself in various legislation concerning children who commit crimes, is going to change soon. We argue that this discourse is set to be replaced by one that does not consider the subordinate position of children as a result of their age but rather equates them with adults, thus making invisible the power imbalance between children and adults. In this article, we analyze a political document, the Tidö Agreement, and its articulations on youth criminality. We consider the Tidö Agreement to be an important tool in the process of social change, and we carry out this discussion in connection to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which became law in Sweden in 2020. By using a discourse theory perspective, we examine the articulations in the Tidö Agreement and discuss how these articulations can reproduce or challenge the current discourses by fixing meaning in certain ways. For instance, the word “child” is ambiguous, and its identity changes depending on how it is positioned in relation to other words in a concrete articulation. In this article, we discuss how this word is used in some contexts but avoided in others, and what consequenses this has.

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瑞典应受惩罚的儿童--从儿童权利角度看《蒂多协议

迄今为止在瑞典一直占主导地位的论述，以及体现在有关犯罪儿童的各种立法中的论述，即将发生变化。我们认为，这种说法将被一种不考虑儿童因其年龄而处于从属地位，而是将他们与成人等同起来，从而使儿童与成人之间的权力失衡变得无形的说法所取代。在本文中，我们将分析一份政治文件--《蒂多协议》及其对青少年犯罪问题的阐述。我们认为《Tidö协议》是社会变革进程中的一个重要工具，并将其与2020年在瑞典成为法律的《联合国儿童权利公约》（UNCRC）联系起来进行讨论。通过使用话语理论的视角，我们研究了《蒂多协议》中的表述，并讨论了这些表述如何通过某些固定意义的方式再现或挑战当前的话语。例如，"儿童 "一词是模棱两可的，其身份的变化取决于它在具体表述中与其他词语的关系。在本文中，我们将讨论在某些语境中如何使用这个词，而在另一些语境中又如何避免使用这个词，以及由此产生的后果。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.