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Whether the girls’ contact and entry into the juvenile justice system is facilitated by family power struggles is not the concern of the institutions that incarcerate them. In the institution’s logic, the girls’ presence in the juvenile justice system is due to a lack of appropriate cultural values; thus this understanding serves the basis for how the institution regulates (‘rehabilitates’) them. Institutions serve as the locality at which the molding of citizens occurs. Previous research on how power is enacted through institutional practices provides insights about the significance of these sites in shaping citizen-subjects . Social institutions reproduce citizens and citizenship status through processes of attempting to impose dominant societal meanings/discourses (Cruikshank 1999; Garland 1997; Glenn 2002; Foucault 1965, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1988; Rose 1988). These meanings are represented in an institution’s logic, as reflected in documents, programs, policies, and daily practices.
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Davis, C.P. (2017). Horizontal Surveillance and Therapeutic Governance of Institutionalized Girls. In: Girls and Juvenile Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42845-1_4
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