Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Descrizione del progetto

DANG.YOU aims to become a policy-oriented study of the contemporary strategies of managing juvenile deviance.
The project will examine the impact of the institutional response whenever the public institutions are required to take care of a young person considered “at risk” by law or by judicial order. This general objective will be achieved through a pilot-study on a sample of young people (14-21 years old), using mainly qualitative methods.
So DANG.YOU will facilitate an evidence-based understanding of the care-and-control strategies adopted by different agencies - legal, socio-educational and medical-, in order to adapt to the figure of a ‘new’ adolescence that appears to be increasingly dangerous, unrestrained and capable of brutal violence.
Consequently we are witnessing an international tendency to tighten the instruments of control and to implement stricter regulations of juvenile deviance. Nowadays these strategies are particularly influenced by two trends which to be studied and internationally compared:
1) Institutionalization. Sets of practices that lead to segregation of vulnerability based on forms of de facto or de jure deprivation of liberty. Practically through placement in enclosed environments other than family without the full consent of the individuals, but justified by self or other harm prevention (De Leonardis, 2001).
2) Medicalization. The recurrent involvement of healthcare and mental health services to deal with addictions, cognitive disparities, mental diseases.
DANG.YOU brings together different stakeholders with great experience in research, advocacy, intervention on “young at risk”. In particular, the two academic international partners (the University of California - Institute on Law, Neuroscience and Education and the Lausanne University Hospital, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) are both conducting studies on juvenile deviance and strategies of intervention in their own countries and they will have a crucial role in analyzing the project outcomes.

Partner:
- CAL Institute - California Institute on Law, Neuroscience and Education, University of California
- ANTIGONE
- ASGI
- CHUV- Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent – SUPEA

Stakeholders:
- Autorità garante per l'Infanzia e l'Adolescenza
- Garante nazionale delle Persone Private della Libertà personale
- Comune di Torino - Dipartimento Servizi Sociali
- Comune di Torino - Dipartimento di Polizia Municipale
- Tribunale dei Minori del Piemonte
- A.I.A:F - Associazione Italiana Avvocati per la Famiglia e i Minori
- S.I.N.P.I.A. - Società Italiana di Neuropsichiatria dell’Infanzia e dell’adolescenza
- Ordine dei Medici di Torino
- Ordine degli assistenti sociali del Piemonte
- FENASCOP - Federazione nazionale strutture comunitarie psicoterapeutiche