Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138210004 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 172 str.

Tim Goddard; Randy Myers

Opis

Over the last two decades or so, community-based efforts have been increasingly pushed to the front line and promoted as the 'best' way to solve many, if not most, of our social problems--including homelessness, drug addiction, the spread of infectious diseases, home-grown terrorism, and delinquency and youth violence. Community-based, social justice organizations orient to youth crime as a product of social injustice. They have creative and often radical ideas about how social change can foster personal change and work daily to transform the social and penal policies aimed at poor young people, particular youth of color. Progressive and critical scholars will need to better understand these organizations, in part because they provide a way to engage with today's possibilities for change in youth justice.
Drawing on research on the work of twelve social justice organizations that use social consciousness, community organizing, and community advocacy as violence prevention, this book examines the impact of community organizations on crime control and prevention, under neoliberal governance. It offers a bottom-up approach, looking at what community actors are doing, documenting the challenges they face, and connecting these to the broader structures and logics that the organizations operate in. It investigate how communities react to the crisis youth face under neoliberalism, and how they implement on-the-ground practices to deal with multiple levels of disadvantage and deep exclusion.

Recenzje

"Goddard and Myers are two of the most original academic activists working in the fields of youth and community. In this long-awaited book they examine the potential, the challenges and the enemies of alternative youth justice interventions aimed at raising individual and community consciousness of the relationships between poverty, racism and neoliberal carceralism. Like the US programmes Goddard and Myers describe, their acute analyses are revolutionary, timely and inspirational contributions to struggles for social and criminal justice."

Professor Pat Carlen, Open University, UK

"Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice is a breathtakingly fresh and radical analysis…. without doubt (it) has set a very high standard for what ‘impactful’ research in the field of youth crime and justice studies can potentially look like."

Professor Jo Phoenix, Open University, British Journal of Criminology

Spis treści

1. Introduction,  2. Background, Context, and Description of the Social Justice Organizations,  3. Source Reduction of Delinquency and Youth Violence,  4. Navigating the Dilemmas of Funding and Reporting,  5. Negotiating Neoliberal Governance and the Political Limits of Community,  6. The Promise and Perils Faced: Grassroots Mobilizing and the Carceral State,  Appendix A,  Appendix B