Youth workers' use of Facebook for mediated pastoralism with juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk

• Main Author: LIM, Sun Sun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Juvenile delinquency; Pastoralism; Social media; Social workers; Sousveillance; Sustainable social capital; Communication Technology and New Media; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/92; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1091/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S0190740917301780_main.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Youth work seeks to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents for re-entry into mainstream society and to prevent youthsat-risk from falling into delinquency, thus necessitating that youth workers assiduously monitor their clients. With the avid use of social media by youths, youth workers must also adopt t...