Tim Goddard, "Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice "
English | ISBN: 0367228130 | 2021 | 184 pages | EPUB | 407 KB
Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail and prison, improve hostile police-community relations, and rollback the "tough on crime" movement. Given that poor people, particularly poor people of color, make up the majority of those under carceral control in Western, industrial countries, can technical solutions, gradual reforms, and individual-level programming genuinely change the deeply entrenched carceral state that has been expanding in the US for over 40 years?

Graham Bright, "Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts"
English | ISBN: 1137434392 | 2015 | 280 pages | EPUB | 501 KB
Youth work is a means of promoting learning, equality and inclusion with young people. It is an incredibly rewarding profession; however, state regulation means that youth work students and practitioners must continuously wrestle with the challenges of contemporary practice in environments that are complex and changing.

Margaretha Järvinen, "Youth Drinking Cultures: European Experiences"
English | ISBN: 1138273503 | 2016 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1431 KB
How can 'binge drinking' be explained and understood? Is alcohol consumption related to the particular cultural characteristics of some European countries? Should heavy drinking cultures be seen as a mainstream youth phenomenon or as marginal - and is this different in different countries? A team of leading researchers addresses these questions and more in their analysis of the alcohol consumption patterns of European young people. Alcohol consumption is an important marker of transition from childhood to early adulthood, yet the timing, intensity and purpose of adolescent drinking varies dramatically between countries. The contributors provide cross-national comparisons to investigate how drinking behaviour varies, examining factors such as gender, societal context and family socio-economic backgrounds. Youth Drinking Cultures offers a comprehensive set of perspectives on adolescent drinking in Europe. In linking issues around social identity and the life-course with a highly topical area of media and policy concern, the book will be of great value to sociology and social policy scholars, especially youth researchers, and also to professionals working with young people.

Bjørn Schiermer, "Youth Collectivities "
English | ISBN: 0367404036 | 2021 | 246 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume seeks to address what its contributors take to be an important lacuna in youth cultural research: a lack of interest in the phenomenon of collectivity and collective aspects of youth culture.

Marco Giugni, "Young People and Long-Term Unemployment "
English | ISBN: 0367638150 | 2022 | 188 pages | EPUB | 1486 KB
Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18-34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy).

Lynda Measor, "Young People and Community Safety: Inclusion, Risk, Tolerance and Disorder: Inclusion, Risk, Tolerance and Disorder "
English | ISBN: 1138736643 | 2017 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This title was first published in 2000: Effective service provisions for young people are often said to be the key to Community Safety planning yet research frequently shows young people as over-controlled yet under-protected. Taking up this dilemma, this work draws upon a large survey of young people's attitudes towards the opportunities facing them and the communities in which they live. The book explores many aspects of young people's lives that adult society finds so disconcerting or threatening or which agency service providers find so difficult to address. The results of these surveys are contrasted with surveys amongst key agency personnel - social services, education, housing, police and the youth service - developing contrasting perspectives on "young people's needs". These findings are then further contrasted with a survey of adult community reactions, revealing markedly different levels of tolerance and intolerance. Discussion of the research findings is situated within a critical review of existing youth diversion and community safety policy initiatives which, by listening to young people and resisting the "demonization" of the young, attempts to take a fresh look at the contemporary "youth question".

Rachel Tynan, "Young Men's Experiences of Long-Term Imprisonment: Living Life "
English | ISBN: 0367581973 | 2020 | 178 pages | EPUB | 607 KB
Long sentenced young people are a small but significant part of the juvenile prison population. The current approach to young people convicted of serious crime speaks to wider issues in criminal and social justice, including the idealisation of (some) childhoods, processes of racialisation and identity and the sociology of the body. Analysing the relationships between biography, trauma and habitus reveals the ways in which class, racial and legal status are experienced and resisted.

Chase Joynt, "You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death, and Transition "
English | ISBN: 1552453316 | 2016 | 140 pages | EPUB | 385 KB
YOLT explores two artists' lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.

Benjamin DeMott, "You Don't Say: Modern American Inhibitions "
English | ISBN: 1138540803 | 2018 | 240 pages | EPUB | 365 KB
In this era of political correctness, it is often impossible to say things as one would like. Indeed, certain ways of feeling and talking that were once acceptable are now, in effect, forbidden. Of course, taboos extend further than speech. Social and sexual inhibitions are also evident. Benjamin DeMott argues that the very least a society should do is to try to understand the meaning of its own inhibitions. As he writes in this new edition of You Don't Say, "a supple awareness of the effective censorship of the day can toughen resistance to clich and stereotype, and is absolutely indispensable to the survival of sharp minds."

Kevin D. Cordi, "You Don't Know Jack: A Storyteller Goes to School"
English | ISBN: 1496821254 | 2019 | 234 pages | EPUB | 281 KB
"Jack and the Beanstalk," "Little Jack Horner," and "Jack the Giant Killer" are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often appears in legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Unlike moralizing fairy tale heroes, however, Jack is typically depicted as foolish or lazy, though he often emerges triumphant through cleverness and tricks.