“Styles of socialization in teenagers in conflict with the law. Risks associated with their behaviour” (Estilos de Socialización en Adolescentes en Conflicto con la Ley con perfil de ajuste. Riesgos asociados a su comportamiento).
José Javier Navarro, doctor in Local Development and Territory and professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Services of Univesitat de València, was awarded with an Accesit in the II International Award of Social Work Doctoral Thesis during the closing ceremony of the II International Conference of Social Work. It took place in University of La Rioja and 600 participants from different countries attended the ceremony. Eveline Chagas Lemos (Universitat de Barcelona) was the winner of the II Award of Doctoral theses (Premio de Tesis Doctorales) while Alberto Jauregui (Universidad Pública de Navarra) obtained the second prize.
The award-winning research was called “Styles of socialization in teenagers in conflict with the law. Risks associated with their behaviour” (Estilos de Socialización en Adolescentes en Conflicto con la Ley con perfil de ajuste. Riesgos asociados a su comportamiento). It is an empirical work built on mixed methods from the teenagers, families and professionals point of view. Teenagers who are influenced by new technologies, fashion, leisure, consumption, materials goods and severe lacks in terms of values, reflective dimension and affective relationships. They are aloof toward a constructive socialization and confronted to institutions such as family or school.
The Thesis is focused on the implications the family has in education and personal, affective and motivational development of the children; how the school shapes the new challenge of educational accompaniment, how leisure activities make possible, reduce or favour risky practices or how the scientific, social and technological advances of the last decade have affected the everyday activities in teenagers. How the territory, the practices that it involves and the classification of its resources, have an influence in teenagers decision to assume risky activities that could lead to an inability to social adaptation criminally punishable. It was also important to identify cases of recidivism and to establish a new profile of these teenagers in trouble with the law according to the new societies.
The Doctoral Thesis of JJ Navarro was supervised by professors Xavier Uceda and Josep Vicent Perez-Cosin and received an Excellent ‘Cum Laude’. The Thesis proposes a theoretical framework to think about the current adolescence. It develops a necessity of an affective-educational relation with the teenager. From this engaging perspective, this Thesis adopt an attitude in the paradigm of the post-modernity and the uncertainties that reflect the social development during the last decades. And also the influences of the territory and global factors that undermine teenagers daily dynamics as well as their competences and potentialities.
