The Impact of Crises in Europe in the Past Decade: A Systematisation of Empirical Findings from the 2010s and Perspectives for a Childhood- and Adolescent-Oriented Crisis Research

From the economy through migration to democracy in general, using crisis as a kind of diagnostic criterion for our time has become a widespread practice. However, this trend is not accompanied by efforts to reflect the wider meaning of crisis. In analysing empirical data, no attention is paid to synchronicities of developments and empirical differences, and few attempts are made to develop a theory and definition of crisis. Hence, crisis remains a vague term that is used very generally to describe the deviation from a norm, and it is used without further explanation in most of the literature.