Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2026
Chapter 5 examines the technologies that are employed within the juvenile justice system to govern young people. These technologies are classified as either disciplinary or pastoral. Disciplinary technologies usually involve a specific regulation of time and space. This manifests itself in some form of panoptic architecture combined with the day-to-day regulation of time. They are embodied in detention centres, reformatory and industrial schools and special care units where strict regulations govern the organisation and movement of those contained within them. Pastoral technologies, on the other hand, usually involve some element of confession and self-disclosure and entail some form of pastoral relationship with another person. They are generally found in community-based programmes such as restorative justice initiatives, crime prevention initiatives, youth projects and Probation Projects. Until the early 1970s the juvenile justice system was dominated by disciplinary technologies epitomised by reformatory and industrial schools. With the decline of the institutional model of regulation and the ascendancy of the diversionary model, pastoral technologies have come to dominate the justice system with large numbers of young people governed in ‘open’ sites within the ‘community’.
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