About the What, How and Why of the investigation on the Field of Juvenile Justice: The Backroom of the Research Process in Rosario, Argentina

ABSTRACT

This article gives an account of a research process that is underway in the city of Rosario (Santa Fe, Argentina). The work aims to show this process that has the particularity of being carried out by a research team made up of teachers, researchers and graduates in Social Work who are not linked to the academic field, but professionally inserted in the administration of justice. Analyzing this fruitful relationship between academic and socio-employment spheres leads us to think about the devices that have been developed at the Universidad del Rosario and the definitions in terms of the nature of the research that is promoted there. The idea of a backroom is an invitation to know how decisions are made as to what, how and why to investigate. The idea of process, and especially in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, leads us to visualize the obstacles and advances. Pointing out in the field of juvenile justice and starting from the need of the socio-legal perspective, we consider that social work contributes to this perspective, as a meeting point to facilitate dialogue between various approaches and scientific areas (criminology, political science, anthropology, social work). Specifically, these reflections arise from the ongoing research project called Juvenile Justice. Meanings Constructed by Young People-Adolescents in Relation to the Socio-legal Process, supported by the qualitative methodological approach.