Things Left Unwritten: Interview Accounts versus Institutional Texts in a Case of Detention Home Violence

To write about clients is an established routine in countless institutional settings, regardless of the fact that clients themselves seldom feel that the produced texts mirror or summarize their experiences. But what, more specifically, is left unwritten when staff starts typing on the keyboard to i...

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Main Author: Wästerfors, David 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cogitatio Press 2019
In: Social Inclusion
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 248-258
Further subjects:B Ethnography
B casebook journals
B producing clients
B written records
B detention home
B Total institution
B institutional texts
B Interview
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