Youth and policy : contexts and consequences : young men, transition, and social exclusion

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Youth and policy : contexts and consequences : young men, transition, and social exclusion

Howard Williamson

Ashgate, c1997

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Reprinted 2000

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251)

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For the past 20 years, Howard Williamson has been involved in practice, policy and research on young people. In this collection of papers, written over this period, he conveys the lines of continuity and change in the context of youth policy. The book draws attention to the increasing polarization of opportunity for young people, the result of the promotion of policies which have taken little account of the perspectives and aspirations of young people themselves. Each section contains both papers which have made "measured" contributions to the academic debate and more "passionate" publications directed at practioners and poicy makers. All derive from empirical qualitative work which sought to secure and assess the views and experiences of young people. The book emphasizes the need for a qualitative understanding of young people's perspectives if effective youth policy is to be developed.

Table of Contents

  • Making sense - a failure to understand and a duty to explain - youth, youth policy, and youth research 1975-1995. Just wicked - rational delinquents: golden years
  • choosing to be a delinquent
  • why kids plead guilty
  • trapped as teenagers. Exploitation or opportunity? - youth retraining programmes: chance would be a fine thing
  • client responses to the youth opportunities programme
  • status zer0 youth
  • policy responses to youth unemployment - cultures, careers and consequences. Person-centered or politically-determined - the youth service: the changing context of youth work in the 1990s
  • at the crossroads - youth work in Wales
  • the needs of young people and the youth service. On the edge - diminished prospects and growing marginalization: struggling beyond youth
  • youth policy in the United Kingdom and the marginalization of young people
  • culture, politics and social exclusion - a comparison of "status zer0" young people in two localities
  • reflections from the field - some lessons from over a decade of contract research.

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