Youth Books

New and Published Books

1. Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

   Edited by Charles Walker, Svetlana Stephenson

   Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation. This book explores the ways in which young people growing up in...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Family Life and Youth Offending

   Home is Where the Hurt is

   By Raymond Arthur

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been processed by the criminal...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

   By Henry A. Giroux

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. A Sociology of Japanese Youth

   From Returnees to NEETs

   Edited by Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka Toivonen

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
5. Research and Research Methods for Youth Practitioners

   Edited by Simon Bradford, Fin Cullen

   Rigorous research is crucial to effective work with young people and increasingly youth practitioners need to be able to develop, review and evidence their work using a variety of research and assessment tools. This text equips students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of research...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Social Justice in Group Work

   Practical Interventions for Change

   Edited by Anneliese Singh, Carmen Salazar

   This book spotlights the unique contribution of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work to the social justice literature, and of group work to a social justice agenda. Although the term social justice may be relatively new in the counseling and psychology literature, the underlying values -...

   Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
7. Young People, Social Capital and Ethnic Identity

   Edited by Tracey Reynolds

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Social capital and ethnicity are crucial to young people’s understandings of their social world. The strong bonding networks often assumed in ethnic groups suggest that individuals may prefer to be bonded to each other according to shared socio-cultural factors such as shared histories, memories,...

   Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Social Impact of Sport

   Cross-Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Ramón Spaaij

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   This book critically examines the ways in which sports contribute to, or inhibit, social well-being, the directions these changes take and the conditions necessary for sport to have beneficial outcomes. The themes addressed in the book demonstrate the diversity and versatility of the social impacts...

   Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
9. Young People, Place and Identity

   By Peter E. Hopkins

   Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people’s everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How do their identities influence these contexts? By working through common-sense understandings of young...

   Published June 27th 2010 by Routledge
10. Young People, Class and Place

    Edited by Robert MacDonald, Tracy Shildrick, Shane Blackman

    Under the weight of apparently growing consumer affluence, globalisation and post-modern social theory, many have proclaimed the declining significance of social class and place to young people’s lives – and for social science. Drawing upon new, empirically grounded, theoretically innovative...

    Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge