ABSTRACT

Music has been welcomed to juvenile justice institutions as a transformative practice supporting the rehabilitation of youth offenders to citizens. However, acknowledging that such institutions are not neutral instruments of the law but political arenas within which notions of ideal citizenship are imposed and contested, the transformative work of music in these settings is related to profoundly ethical questions of who incarcerated young people are, who we hope they become, and the kind of society we are striving towards. This article reports a qualitative metasynthesis of contemporary research on music in juvenile justice settings, examining how such transformative work might reinforce or disrupt the existing social order and enable young people to enact their own subjectivities through music. Arguing against music as a form of coercive correction, this article suggests that an engagement with the politics of music programmes might better support the realisation of a shared humanity underpinned by ideals of equity and relationality.

摘要

青少年司法机构欢迎音乐作为一种变革性的实践，支持将青少年罪犯改造为公民。然而，承认这些机构不是中立的法律工具，而是在其中强加和质疑理想公民概念的政治舞台，音乐在这些环境中的变革性工作与深刻的伦理问题有关，即谁是被监禁的年轻人，我们是谁希望他们成为，以及我们正在努力争取的那种社会。本文报告了对青少年司法环境中当代音乐研究的定性综合，研究了这种变革性的工作如何加强或破坏现有的社会秩序，并使年轻人能够通过音乐实现自己的主体性。