Review article

YOUTH AS AN AT-RISK GROUP

Olivera Pavićević ; Institute for Crimonology and Sociology Research, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

This paper analyses the relation between the risk concept and youth as a stage of life for which risk is an inherent property. The process of maturing implies risk, and this risk relates to the social and cultural concept of risk, as is characteristic for the reality of late capitalism. It also relates to the political and ideological expertise striving to manage it. Risk discourse often appears in public as a negative, disturbing and cautionary attitude towards young people, marking them as a category that is in peril, trouble. Similarities and differences that exist in the developed Western and post-socialist societies are stressed. The analysis of risk behaviour and the concept of risk include cultural criminology that views anti-social behaviour and criminal practice in the context of identity changes and cultural symbols which are the symptom of deep social changes in the post-modern society.

Keywords

risk; young people; risk factors; risk behaviour; late capitalism; post-socialism

Hrčak ID:

136816

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/136816

Publication date:

25.3.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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