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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 -- Chapter 7 A Decade of Decline: Social Class and Post-school Destination of Minimum-age School-leavers in Scotland, 1977-1987 -- Chapter 8 Class and Gender Divisions among Young Adults at Leisure -- Chapter 9 Creating Poverty and Creating Crime: Australian Youth Policy in the Eighties -- Chapter 10 Youth Homelessness in Wales -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

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

Drawing on the findings of a two-year European research project, this book presents a new model for responding meaningfully and effectively to the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of boxes, figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Author biographies -- 1 Becoming a youth worker -- 2 Learning to "read": cultivating ecological intelligence -- 3 Navigating inexperience: how reflection guides practice for a novice youth worker -- 4 Balancing high expectations, program structure, and youth realities: making kids fit the program or the program fit the kids -- 5 Balancing conflicting values from home, a youth organization, and the community: keeping youth well-being at the center of youth work -- 6 Youth worker and organizational responses to risky behavior and dangerous situations -- 7 Balancing youth privacy with the youth worker's need for information: the importance of organizational support in dilemma resolution -- 8 Activating personal knowledge to balance the needs of high-risk youth with the safety of others in the program -- 9 "When I heard who it was, I knew it wasn't a real gun": "reading" the context to maintain safety -- 10 "Do they think we're not in charge?": addressing dilemmas that arise in a Social Justice Youth Development approach -- 11 Crosscutting themes and implications for youth worker professional development -- Index.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- Acknowledgement -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Early History of Youth Work Practice -- Graham Bright -- Introduction -- Framing Youth Work -- Our Contemporary Need for History -- The Contextual Backdrop to Youth Work's Emergence:A Critical View -- The Emergence of Adolescence -- Tracing Histories -- The Great War -- Between the Wars -- Conclusion -- 2 State Beneficence or Government Control?Youth Work from Circular 1486 to 1996 -- Simon Bradford -- Introduction -- Wartime Youth Work: Incipient Professionalism -- Into the Postwar Period: Welfare Professionalism -- The New Right and Thatcherism: Performative Professionalism -- Conclusion -- 3 In the Service of the State: Youth Work underNew Labour -- Howard Sercombe -- Introduction -- Background: The British Labour Party and Neo-liberalism -- Third Way -- New Labour and Youth Work -- Connexions -- New Labour in Scotland: Working and Learning Together -- Conclusion -- 4 Volunteers and Entrepreneurs? Youth Work and the Big Society -- Tania de St Croix -- Introducing the Big Society -- Cuts and Redundancies -- Neo-liberal Youth Policy: Celebrating the Entrepreneur -- Diversifying Organizations -- The National Citizen Service -- Conclusion: Youth Work and the Shadow State -- 5 Local Authority Youth Work -- Pat Norris and Carole Pugh -- Introduction -- The Context for English Local Authority Youth Services:We're 'Positive for Youth'- but with No Budget -- Current Challenges within Local Authority Provision:Themes Emerging from the Case Studies -- Reducing 'Universal' Provision? -- Renewed Awareness of and Relationship with the Voluntaryand Community Sector -- Conclusion: What Can Endure within Local AuthorityYouth Work? -- 6 Youth Work in the Voluntary Sector.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Making Youth: A History of Youth inModern Britain -- Introduction -- Defining youth -- The emergence of modern youth -- Key themes and moments of transition -- Chapter outlines -- 1 Working Youth and Educating the Young -- Young people at work -- Youth employment from the end of the First World War -- Class and schooling -- Educating working-class youth -- 2 Troublemaking and Imposing Order -- The juvenile criminal justice system -- Trends in the treatment of youth crime -- The ebb and flow of punishment and rehabilitation -- Conclusion -- 3 Organised and Unorganised Youth -- Youth gangs -- Organised youth movements -- Political youth -- Containing youth in a changing world -- Youth-led anti-racist activism -- The evolution of a state-funded youth service -- 4 Policing Sexual Behaviour -- Sexual reputation -- Class distinctions in courtship -- Sexual boundaries -- Youth and same-sex activities -- Wartime transgressions -- Post-war trends -- 5 Leisure and Consumption -- Youth consumption in the nineteenth century -- Cultures of girls and young women -- Rebellious and disaffected styles -- Post-war youth -- Shaping a national youth culture -- 6 New Youth Identities -- Youth in the long 1960s -- Counter-cultures and political radicalism -- Black youth: creative otherness -- Youth sub-cultures -- Punk and girl power -- Conclusion -- 7 Youth Transforming -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Table and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Contemporary Youth Research: Issues, Controversies and Dilemmas -- Part 1 Youth Research in Context -- 1 Problems and Priorities for the Sociology of Youth -- 2 Mods and Shockers: Youth Cultural Studies in Britain -- Part 2 Principles of Practice -- 3 Framing Youth: Reviewing Locally Commissioned Research on Young People, Drug Use and Drug Education -- 4 Practice-based Research as Development: Innovation and Empowerment in Youth Intervention Initiatives using Collaborative Action Inquiry -- 5 Onions and Apples: Problems with Comparative European Youth Research -- Part 3 Reflections on Fieldwork -- 6 Ethnography in Practice: A Case Study Illustration -- 7 Researching Young Women's Bodies: Values, Dilemmas and Contradictions -- 8 E-heads Versus Beer Monsters: Researching Young People's Music and Drug Consumption in Dance Club Settings -- Part 4 Issues in Ethnography -- 9 Double Exposure: Exploring the Social and Political -- 10 Researching Young People as Consumers: Can and Should We Ask Them Why? -- 11 The Use of 'Insider' Knowledge in Ethnographic Research on Contemporary Youth Music Scenes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Combining institutional ethnography and community-based research, Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of the frontline workers who take responsibility for assisting them. Drawing from more than a year of on-site research at an Ontario youth emergency shelter, Naomi Nichols exposes the complicated institutional practices that govern both the lives of young people living in shelters and the workers who try to help them.

Intro -- YOUTH IN AMERICA TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD AND DISCONNECTED YOUTHS -- YOUTH IN AMERICA TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD AND DISCONNECTED YOUTHS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 AMERICA'S YOUTH: TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD* -- SELECTED FINDINGS -- Demographics -- Youth Population -- Living Arrangements -- Birth Rates -- School-Related Characteristics -- School Enrollment -- High School Coursetaking and Advanced Placement Participation -- Reading and Mathematics Achievement -- International Performance -- High School Status Dropout Rates -- College Readiness -- College Enrollment -- Educational Attainment -- Employment-Related Characteristics -- Labor Force Participation -- Young Adult Unemployment -- Median Earnings -- Poverty -- Activities Outside of Work and School -- Afterschool Activities -- Homework -- Volunteer Work -- Health and Wellness -- Health Status -- Personal Safety -- Future Goals -- Educational Expectations -- Educational Progress -- READER'S GUIDE -- Organization of the Report and Data Sources -- Data Analysis and Interpretation -- Classifications of Age Groups -- Definitions of Race and Ethnicity -- DEMOGRAPHICS -- 1. The Youth Population in the United States -- 2. Population Projections of the Youth Population -- 3. Nativity of the Youth Population -- 4. Living Arrangements of the Youth Population -- 5. The Mobility of the Youth Population -- 6. MARRIAGE -- 7. Birth Rates and Births to Unmarried Females -- SCHOOL-RELATED CHARACTERISTICS -- 8. School Enrollment -- 9. High School Enrollment -- 10. High School Mathematics and Science Coursetaking -- 11. Advanced Placement (AP) Participation -- 12. Reading and Mathematics Proficiency of 13- and 17-Year-Olds -- 13. International Reading, Mathematics, and Science Achievement -- 14. Suspensions and Expulsions of High School Students -- 15. High School Status Dropout Rates