Abstract
Staying in a Youth Educational Centre meets the isolation criteria. Therefore, it may deprive adolescents of important needs and trigger specific group processes characteristic of subcultures. This article concentrates on the creation of norms and rules in the group of teenagers placed in social rehabilitation institutions. The research question referred to the similarities and differences in the perception of norms, rules and hierarchy in Youth Educational Centres by their employees and the minors.The Focus Group Interview and the method of competent judges were used as the research method for the caretakers, and the survey was used when researching the adolescents. Interviews were conducted with the caretakers and the adolescents. The study group consisted of 32 adolescents and 7 employees. It was conducted at Youth Educational Centre in Lower Silesia as a pilot study.The research results reveal a similar perception of rules in the centre by the caretakers and adolescents. Despite the mixed research methodology and the changing environment of modern adolescents (globalization and functioning in cyberspace), the research confirmed the earlier results in terms of the content of the rules functioning in the centre. Moreover, the caretakers listed a richer range of the determinants of the observed behaviour and the process of rule formation. The adolescents focused mainly on situational factors and used masking strategies. Keywords: adolescence, prison rehabilitation, subculture, rules DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-11-02 Publication date: June 30 th 2021
Highlights
Youth Educational Center (YEC) as an educational and isolation institution (Regulation of the Ministry of National Education, 2011) aims to eliminate the causes and symptoms of social maladjustment (Jaworska, 2009; Supreme Chamber of Control, NIK 2018)
"subculture" means "all norms, values and patterns that determine the behaviour of all people participating in social processes that are created within the prison" (Dolata, 2011)
In order to analyze the process of creating rules among the youth and their caretakers, a developmental approach was taken into account. In this perspective, which is repeatedly discussed in the literature, the antisocial development is often diagnosed among young people staying at the YEC
Summary
Youth Educational Center (YEC) as an educational and isolation institution (Regulation of the Ministry of National Education, 2011) aims to eliminate the causes and symptoms of social maladjustment (Jaworska, 2009; Supreme Chamber of Control, NIK 2018). The social behaviour, norms and values which are created are important from the point of view of a closed group that can be treated as a subculture of a given centre. In order to analyze the process of creating rules among the youth and their caretakers, a developmental approach was taken into account In this perspective, which is repeatedly discussed in the literature, the antisocial development is often diagnosed among young people staying at the YEC. The study group consisted of 7 caretakers, including 5 males (80%) and 2 females (20%) and 32 adolescents aged between 14 and 17 (mean age M = 15.5; 15 respondents (46%) were aged 14-15, and 17 (52%) were 16-17) in one of the Youth Educational Centres in Lower Silesia. One includes the material collected among the caretakers, and www.iiste.org the other contains the material gathered among the adolescents
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