Youth Books

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1. International Perspectives on Child Victimisation

   By Julia Davidson, Christopher Hamerton

   International Perspectives on Child Victimisation offers a comprehensive overview of the established themes and emergent debates relating to the abuse and victimisation of children. Highlighting key areas of global concern, and illustrated with detailed case studies of important developments, Julia...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57957-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Research Methods for Youth Work: An introduction

   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...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57103-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. 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 -...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57681-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Young People, Social Capital and Ethnic Identity

   Edited by Tracey Reynolds

   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,...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-55211-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Social Impact of Sport: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Ramón Spaaij

   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...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-58394-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-45439-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. 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...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-56756-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Moving Out, Moving On: Young People's Pathways In and Through Homelessness

   By Shelley Mallett, Doreen Rosenthal, Deb Keys, Roger Averill

   Based on rich interview data drawn from a large scale longitudinal study of homeless young people, this book examines the personal, familial and structural factors that impact on homeless young people’s long-term outcomes. While telling the personal stories of young people’s experiences, the book...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-47030-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Learning to Fail: How Society Lets Young People Down

   By Fran Abrams

   During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue – youth unemployment. Even when economic growth was strong, one young person in 10 in the United Kingdom was neither working nor learning. As the boom ended, the...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-48396-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Young People and Sexual Exploitation: 'It's Not Hidden, You Just Aren't Looking'

    By Jenny J. Pearce

    Work with sexually exploited young people can be rewarding yet difficult. They can be hard to access, often presenting challenging behaviour. Sometimes it is painful to hear their life stories, whether these include abuse through the Internet or exploitation experienced through having been...

    September 2009 | 978-0-415-40716-8 | Paperback (Routledge)