Responding to Youth Violence through Youth Work

Mike Seal, Pete Harris (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2016
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-2309-9 (ISBN)

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

This book draws on the findings of a two-year European research project, this book combines elements of critical theory, psychosocial criminology and applied existential philosophy to present a new model for responding meaningfully and effectively the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers.

Mike Seal is Principal Lecturer and Head of Youth and Community Work at Newman University Birmingham. He has worked in the field for 25 years and worker, manager, trainer and consultant. He has written five previous books on homelessness and youth work. Pete Harris worked for 15 years as a youth worker, was Chair of the Federation for Detached Youth Work and is now Senior Lecturer in Youth and Community Work and Criminology at Newman University, Birmingham.

Preface ~ John Pitts;
Part 1: Literature review, theoretical frame and researching youth violence;
Youth work and youth violence in a European context;
Our theoretical frame;
Using participatory research methods to study youth violence;
Part 2: Responding meaningfully to youth violence;
Working at the personal (P) level;
Working at the community(C) level;
Working at the structural (S) level;
Working at the existential (E) level;
Part 3: Rethinking youth work practice and policy;
Rethinking some youth worker tales;
Working with intersectional identities;
Creating policy for good practice;
Part 4: Youth work responses in action - case studies of praxis;
Responding to structural and symbolic violence: A comparative case study;
A sports based response to youth violence;
Exploring “Confrontational Pedagogy”;
Embedding Community Work;
Ethnopraxis in action;
Imagining realistic alternatives.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-2309-2 / 1447323092
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-2309-9 / 9781447323099
Zustand	Neuware