El Ocio constructivo como estrategia para la integración de adolescentes en conflicto con la ley

Abstract

Recreational activities represent themselves as educational actions that project themselves into the everyday space of the new times. Moreover, they are established as construction practices in the transition to adulthood that are able to link recreational educational practices. When fractures occur between these two dimensions (fun and learning), spaces can be generated in which oriented recreational activities become a risk associated with teenage dynamics. Even more if these periods end up hiding other deviant activities that are represented in everyday space and transform recreational routines into customary risk practices. Thus, inclusive, structured, supervised and constructive leisure management confers a high rank to the geographical planning of city models, to its strategic development and to participatory practices or new territorial policies promoting inclusion and social education. Consequently, public administrations should design governance projects able to formalize positive leisure spaces and activities. The factors around leisure gain an interesting dimension. The work presented here is a case study from the perspective of the Juvenile Criminal Justice that seeks to explore, describe, and evaluate everyday aspects of teenage leisure, and how they project scenarios both for integration and for conflict or rupture through it.