BEYOND CRIMINALIZATION: ALTER-CHILDHOOD AND THE COMMUNITARIAN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF DELINQUENCY

Abstract

This article is based on communitarian social psychology perspective. It will analyse the process of otherness in the relationship between childhood and delinquency. It will discuss in the context of social policies using the notion of device (dispositif). The following sections will develop the relationship between childhood, delinquency and otherness using several approaches: social policies, research in social sciences, the notion of device (Foucault) and historiography, developing a critical over the criminalization process to childhood, and proposing the idea of Alter- Childhood as critical com-pehension.