Full Description
This title was first published in 2000: Effective service provisions for young people are often said to be the key to Community Safety planning yet research frequently shows young people as over-controlled yet under-protected. Taking up this dilemma, this work draws upon a large survey of young people's attitudes towards the opportunities facing them and the communities in which they live. The book explores many aspects of young people's lives that adult society finds so disconcerting or threatening or which agency service providers find so difficult to address. The results of these surveys are contrasted with surveys amongst key agency personnel - social services, education, housing, police and the youth service - developing contrasting perspectives on "young people's needs". These findings are then further contrasted with a survey of adult community reactions, revealing markedly different levels of tolerance and intolerance.
Contents
1: Young People and Community Problems; 2: Emerging Issues for Youth and Community Safety Policy; 3: Community and Ambiguity: Deconstructing the Policy Discourse; 4: Agency Perspectives on Young People's Gatherings; 5: Everybody's Talking: Young People's Accounts of the Gatherings; 6: The School Surveys; 7: Data and Discourses: Contrasting Images of Youthful Disorder; 8: Community Reactions: The Residential Surveys; 9: Conclusion
