Jeunes turbulents et intervenants sociaux

• Main Authors: Manuel Boucher, Mohamed Belqasmi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ecole Nationale de Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse 2010-04-01
• Series: Sociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté
• Subjects: inner City; urban unrest; young rebel; social actors emerging and established; police cities; urban policing
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sejed/6648

This text presents data extracted from a research on violent confrontations between “young rebels” embodying “figures of disorder” and the social actors responsible for regulating urban turbulence in a popular city traumatized by the riots Fall 2005. We describe the social experience of young residents of a city housing projects to Fear and frictional interaction they have with the established players and emerging leadership of the popular classes. More precisely, first, this article depicts the retesting of the dominance of youth in a city (City of Lost Children) in the process of ghettoization living a process of routinization of stigma and secondly, the reactions and strategies implemented by social actors “police Cities” forced to develop a form of over-commitment to save their skin and emerge from a process of “mutual objectification” in a context of growing complexity of local social control.