1st Edition

Youth and Policy Contexts and Consequences

By Howard Williamson Copyright 1997
261 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

261 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified young men on the margins. These young men, whose cultures of machismo, manualism and anti-mentalism previously served to prepare them for the manual labour market, are increasingly the careerless, the jobless and the folk-devils of the modern, post-industrial... Read more

1. Making Sense … a Failure to Understand and a Duty to Explain: Youth, Youth Policy and Youth Research 1975-1995. Part 1. Just Wicked: Rational Delinquents. 2. Golden Years. 3. Choosing to be a Delinquent. 4. Why Kids Plead Guilty. 5. Trapped as Teenagers. Part 2. Exploitation or Opportunity? Youth Training Programmes. 6. Chance Would be a Fine Thing. 7. Client Responses to the Youth Opportunities Programme. 8. Status Zer0 Youth: Politics, Predicaments and Policies. 9. Policy Responses to Youth Unemployment: Cultures, Careers and Consequences. Part 3. Person-Centred or Politically-Determined: the Youth Service. 10. The Changing Context of Youth Work in the 1990s. 11. At the Crossroads: Youth Work in Wales. 12. The Needs of Young People Aged 15-19 and the Youth Service Response. Part 4. On the Edge: Diminished Prospects and Growing Marginalisation. 13. Struggling Beyond Youth. 14. Youth Policy in the United Kingdom and the Marginalisation of Young People. 15. Culture, Politics and Social Exclusion: a Comparison of ‘Status Zer0’ Young People in Two Localities. Part 5. Reflections from the Field. 16. Some Lessons from Over a Decade of Contract Research.

Biography

Howard Williamson