Abstract

Home arrest (HA), an alternative rehabilitative sentence to the more punitive disposal of imprisonment, is utilised in a range of ways by criminal justice regimes across the world. However, its implementation contains the potential for intimate political intrusion. This paper engages with forty-one testimonials gathered from Palestinian children, young people (aged 12–18 years) and their families, examining their experiences under HA in Occupied East Jerusalem. The analysis of their voices reveals how HA has affected children and young people’s intimate spaces, psyches and behaviour, and dismembered their relationships and sense of belonging. It simultaneously uncovers creative manifestations of freedom and the refusal to accept HA’s destructive consequences. The paper draws on children’s own understandings of HA as a violent technology of control, rethinks the role of social work in violent contexts and offers new insights on intervention. It suggests that in settler colonial militarised contexts, HA serves as a racialised disciplinary practice that poses major ethical challenges for critical social work practice. The paper concludes by underscoring the importance of encouraging social workers to engage with the anti-oppressive social work agenda and to examine their positions and ethics in politically complex realities.

中文翻译：

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儿童反对家庭逮捕：非殖民化种族刑罚

摘要

居家逮捕 (HA) 是一种替代惩罚性监禁刑罚的改过自新刑罚，被世界各地的刑事司法制度以多种方式利用。然而，它的实施包含潜在的政治入侵。本文涉及从巴勒斯坦儿童、年轻人（12-18 岁）及其家人那里收集的 41 份证言，审查他们在被占领的东耶路撒冷在 HA 下的经历。对他们声音的分析揭示了 HA 如何影响儿童和年轻人的私密空间、心理和行为，并肢解他们的人际关系和归属感。它同时揭示了自由的创造性表现和拒绝接受 HA 的破坏性后果。该论文借鉴了孩子们自己对 HA 作为一种暴力控制技术的理解，重新思考社会工作在暴力环境中的作用，并提供有关干预的新见解。它表明，在定居者殖民军事化的背景下，医管局作为一种种族化的纪律做法，对关键的社会工作实践构成了重大的伦理挑战。本文最后强调了鼓励社会工作者参与反压迫社会工作议程并在复杂的政治现实中审视他们的立场和道德的重要性。