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AbstractYouth evaluators describe their findings from an extensive evaluation of forty youth programs in San Francisco. Interviews with current youth and the former program director provide insight into the promise and challenge of youth participation.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Youth in Transition; Chapter 2 Surrogate Employment, Surrogate Labour Markets and the Development of Training Policies in the Eighties; Chapter 3 From New Vocationalism to the Culture of Enterprise; Chapter 4 The Transition from YTS to Work: Content, Context and the External Labour Market; Chapter 5 Trainers and Tutors in the YTS Environment; Chapter 6 Interpreting Vocationalism: Youth Training and Managerial Practices.

Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT). ; The Northern Territory Youth Round Table (Round Table) is a direct communication avenue between young Territorians and the Northern Territory Government. The Round Table consists of 16 members who are aged 15 to 25 years. Round Table members are representative of the geographic, cultural and ethnic diversity in the Northern Territory.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Sociology Matters: Sociological Perspectives and Young People -- Introduction -- A Brief History -- Becoming (and Remaining) Part of the Social -- Youth, Sociology and Young People -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 2 Growing Up in the Present: From 1945 to the 2000s -- Introduction -- The Post-War Period and 'Political Consensus' -- Challenges to the Settlements: Emerging Neoliberalism -- The New Service and Knowledge Economy -- Feminizing the Labour Force -- Flexible Labour Markets -- The Social Geography of the Labour Market -- Youth Labour Markets and the Transition from School to Work -- Between the Market and the State: Third Way Politics -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Growing up in Public and Private: Youth, Transition and Identity-Making -- Introduction -- Identity, Youth and Transitions -- Youth as Transition -- Sociology and Youth Transition -- Private and Public Worlds -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Being Similar and Different: Youth and Social Difference -- Introduction -- Youth Social Difference and Inequality -- Social Class -- Social Class, Identity and Youth -- Gender, Sexuality and Youth -- Race, Ethnicity and Youth -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 5 Being Social: Complying and Transgressing -- Introduction -- Youth Culture in Modernity: Youth and Subculture -- British Youth Research -- The Concept of Youth Subculture -- Criticizing Subculture -- Deviance, Youth and Transgression -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Being Somewhere: Youth, Space and Place -- Introduction -- Youth Space and Place -- Youth, Identities, Virtual Space and Place -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 7 Living in a World of Change and Constancy: Globalization, Citizenship and Youth -- Introduction -- Globalization.

Preliminary Material -- Pavilion -- Sketching Youth, Self, and Youth Work -- Youth Work Is -- My Presence in Multicultural Youth Work -- The Team Meeting: A Three Act Play -- Self in Action -- Motion, Stillness, Waiting, Anticipating... -- Death, Writing, Bulls and White Nights -- References -- About the Author.

How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an insightful, scholarly and critical analysis of such key issues. Youth Offending and Youth Justice engages constructively with current policy and practice debates, tackling issues such as the criminalisation and penalisation of youth, sentencer decision-making, the incarceration of young people and the role of public opinion. It also features an appli

AbstractIn inner‐city Washington, D.C., lives a generation of young people for whom violence, discrimination, and poverty are a daily reality. Out‐of‐school‐time programming by Facilitating Leadership in Youth provides youth with comprehensive support and services, trusting relationships, and gradually increasing leadership opportunities to elicit positive community change.