ISBN:
9781447318194
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (250 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Vulnerability and young people : Care and social control in policy and practice
DDC:
305.242
Keywords:
Conflict of generations..
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Young adults ; Psychology..
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Young adults ; Social conditions..
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Young adults
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Draws on in-depth research with marginalised young people and professionals who support them to explore the implications of a 'vulnerability zeitgeist', asking how far the rise of vulnerability in welfare and criminal justice processes serves the interests of those who are most disadvantaged
Description / Table of Contents:
VULNERABILITY AND YOUNG PEOPLE; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements ; 1. The vulnerability zeitgeist ; Researching vulnerability: motivations and aims ; 'Vulnerability' and 'youth': contested territories of care and control ; Theoretical orientations; Research methods and the case study investigation ; Structure of the book and key messages ; 2. Making sense of vulnerability ; Introduction; Natural or innate vulnerability and child development ; Situational vulnerability and 'deservingness'; Social disadvantage and spaces of vulnerability
Description / Table of Contents:
Universal vulnerability and the vulnerability thesis writersVulnerability and risk: similarities and differences ; Chapter summary ; 3. The rise of vulnerability in social policy ; Introduction; Mapping vulnerability in policy and practice; Vulnerable groups and vulnerable identities; Vulnerability, discretion and subtle social control ; Vulnerability and citizenship; Chapter summary ; 4. Vulnerability management ; Introduction; Classifications and understandings of vulnerability in practice ; The vulnerability-transgression nexus: the subtleties beyond the binary
Description / Table of Contents:
Vulnerability and gender: the feminisation of vulnerability?Chapter summary ; 5. Vulnerable young people's lives; Introduction; Vulnerable youth: difficult lives, multiple disadvantages ; Transgression and vulnerability; Imagined futures; Chapter summary; 6. Vulnerable identities? ; Introduction; Young people's understandings of vulnerability ; Vulnerable? Not me, not now ; Receptiveness to vulnerability classifications ; Optimism, resistance and 'vulnerable identities'; Chapter summary; 7. The social mediation of vulnerability; Introduction; Childhood development and vulnerability
Description / Table of Contents:
Experiences of care and social control processes Vulnerability in context: wider structural influences ; Chapter summary ; 8. Vulnerability, behavioural regulation and 'revolting subjects' ; Introduction; Overview of findings ; Mismatched understandings of vulnerability: expectations and realities ; Dimensions of vulnerability ; The vulnerable citizen: the social division of social control ; Subtle shades of care and social control: towards a more excluding society ; Implications for policy, practice and research; Concluding reflections; Appendix: Pen portraits of vulnerable young people
Description / Table of Contents:
Alicia, female, 16, White British Anna, female, 12, White Eastern European; Brook, female, 16, White British; Charlie, female, 16, White British; Chris, male, 17, British Pakistani; Elle, female, 14, Black African; Hayley, female, 16, White British ; Jade A, female, 17, White British; Jade B, female, 16, White British; Jay Jay, male, 17, White British; 'Jeremy Clarkson', male, 15, British Bangladeshi; Jess, female, 15, White British; John, male, 16, White British; Keith, male, 16, White British ; Kotaa, female, 12, Romany Gypsy; Laura, female, 16, White British
Description / Table of Contents:
Mackenzie, male, 16, White British
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