Young people, welfare and crime : governing non-participation / Ross Fergusson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fergusson, Ross, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployed youth.

Youth--Employment.

Youth.

Youth--Government policy.

Youth--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offers a challenging interpretation of the ways in which young people's non-participation is becoming marginalised and criminalised. It re-examines the causes and consequences of youth unemployment in and beyond the UK from an unusually wide range of social science disciplines and perspectives.

Contents:

YOUNG PEOPLE, WELFARE AND CRIME; Contents; Detailed contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; List of abbreviations; About the author; Acknowledgements; Part One . The crisis of non-participation; 1. Crises of non-participation; Introduction; Section 1: The crisis of non-participation ; Section 2: A crisis of the analysis of non-participation; Section 3: Overview of key literature; Section 4: Aims and structure of the book ; Part Two. Work, welfare and crime: research and policy; 2. Young people and non-participation: discourses, histories, literatures; Introduction

Section 1: 'Transition' and the transitions discourse19th- and 20th-century configurations of work and school; A 'transition' from school to work?; The fragmentation of transitions, and the transitions discourse; Culture and economy: conflicted paradigms?; Section 2: The social exclusion discourse; Section 3: The disengagement discourse; Political, social and employee disengagement ; Concluding comments; 3. Non-participation, wages and welfare; Introduction ; Section 1: The scale of unemployment among young people; Endemic: sustained and growing mass youth unemployment in the UK

The divergence of youth and adult unemploymentUbiquitous: global youth unemployment; Section 2: Skills, wages and labour markets; Low skills, unemployment and mistaken labour market orthodoxies; Low-skilled labour, declining youth wages and bifurcated labour markets; Section 3: Dismantling entitlement: the withdrawal of social security ; Dismantling entitlement: a brief history; Section 4: Rational actors: choosing non-participation; Three forces of non-participation: the 'wage rate suppression dynamic'; The research literature; Concluding comments

4. Non-participation and crime: constructing connectionsIntroduction; Section 1: Constructing discursive connections; The risk factor prevention paradigm; Birth cohort studies; The non-participation-crime link in policy discourses; Section 2: Young people and the 'economic causes of crime' thesis; At and beyond the limits of aggregate statistical modelling; Differentiating causality: instrumental and expressive crime; The welfare-crime relationship; Reverse causality in the unemployment-crime relation?; Concluding comments; 5. Unemployment, crime and recession; Introduction

Section 1: Crime and recessionSection2: Reduced youth crime in the global financial crisis?; Section 3: The global financial crisis, social cohesion and social unrest; Concluding comments; Interpretive review; Part Three. Theorising non-participation; 6. Lines of division, points of entry: two theories; Introduction; Section 1: Jürgen Habermas: systems and lifeworlds ; Systems and lifeworlds; Colonisation and uncoupling; Idiographic effects of the erosions of social reproduction; Constructing a Habermasian interpretation of non-participation

Young people, welfare and disjuncture in Habermas' social theory

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447321040

1447321049

9781447311713

144731171X

9781447307037

1447307038

OCLC:

940961602