Sketches from a Juvenile Justice Centre

This book draws on the author’s decade-long experience as an educator, who is also a children’s rights scholar, in a small juvenile justice centre (JJC) in northern Spain. It emerges as the author’s reflection on his own particular experiences in the JJC, in connection to his wider concerns with children and youth’s emancipation. Thus, it explores the possibility of achieving emancipation, through relationships, while faced with multiple layers of coercion, and aims to be a toolbox for those who approach juvenile justice, and the education allegedly at its core, with a critical eye.

Matías Cordero Arce is a Chilean independent researcher and a full-time educator, since 2014, at a Juvenile Justice Centre in the Basque Country (Spain). He holds an LLB from the Catholic University of Chile and practiced law for a few years in Chile before moving to the Basque Country, where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology of Law from the University of the Basque Country. He has presented, lectured, and published on issues related to children’s rights studies and childhood studies and is the author of Hacia un Discurso Emancipador de los Derechos de las Niñas y los Niños (Lima, Ifejant).