This article reviews and compares the use of confinement and other restrictive measures
against young people under 18 in child welfare and/or the criminal justice systems in …

In special youth homes run by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, youths are
placed because of involuntary care or a verdict. The legal regulations and conflicting …

Formal social control of girls has historically focused on disciplining their sexual behavior,
and studies show this is still present. This article analyses how authorities describe and give …

This article focuses on conflicts between youths and staff at special approved homes in
Sweden. We direct a special focus at the institutional micropolitics within which these …

In discussion of troubled adolescent girls, their mental health often is in focus and a
discourse constructing girls as vulnerable victims therefore dominates Swedish social …

In this article, the account-making of social workers and institutional care staff on locked
institutional care for youth is analysed, based on empirical material consisting of 10 …

This study aims to describe secure institutional youth care homes in Sweden in terms of the
conditions of their spatial environment (ie physical design and objects) and the individual …

In Sweden, young people are assessed in institutions at the request of the social services, a
situation that can be described as being in limbo, in a state of uncertainty. Using the …

This article explores young people's understandings of assessments conducted in secure
accommodation. The concepts of 'institutional identity'and 'text-mediated'actions have been …

In this article the authors present a meta-synthesis of their studies on secure institutions in
Sweden and Denmark. The aim of the metasynthesis is to explore how the context of …