Explores the social construction of childhood & youth, & looks at the role of the media in creating an association of young people with crime & disorder, which sustains processes of marginalization & exclusion & leads to frequent 'panics' about youth crime. This book is suitable for students in criminology, sociology, & social policy. ...

Explores the social construction of childhood & youth, & looks at the role of the media in creating an association of young people with crime & disorder, which sustains processes of marginalization & exclusion & leads to frequent 'panics' about youth crime. This book is suitable for students in criminology, sociology, & social policy. ...

This illuminating new book embeds our understanding of the youth question within a historical context. It shows how the ideas of past political action, in conjunction with the diverse paradigms of social science disciplines, have shaped modern conceptions of the youth question. ...

Aims to provide an understanding of youth offending & policy & practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy & interventions, designed to reduce & prevent problem behaviour. Aims to meet the need for an exploration of youth justice & youth offending. ...

Helps readers identify what is important about their project, how their research relates to previous work & how it may be used to bring about change at individual, community, national or even international levels. This work presents a strategy that focuses on the notion of the 'project' as an organising framework. ...

Understudies brings together new poems of optimism & isolation, of assumed & confused identities, with some of the poems from the poet's previous three collections that first brought readers into a world of lives at once chaotic & oddly consolatory that lie below placid surfaces. ...

Black comedy about the determination of an understudy to be successful. Rebecca (Marin Ireland) is a struggling actress who gets the opportunity to be the understudy of film star Simone Harwin (Kelli Giddish) in a theatrical production of Electra. But, despite her talent, Rebecca is looked down on by the cast & crew. Soon the lead actresses become victims of mysterious accidents, meaning Rebecca has a starring role, but when the police investigate the situation her part in the play, along with her freedom, is in jeopardy. ...