Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on the findings of a two-year European research project, this book presents a new model for responding meaningfully and effectively the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers.
Trade Review"Impressively steps outside of the norms associated with existing youth work scholarship making an important, wide-ranging contribution to our knowledge of youth work’s role in responding to youth violence.” Ross Deuchar, University of the West of Scotland
Table of ContentsPreface ~ John Pitts; Part 1: Literature review, theoretical frame and researching youth violence; Youth work and youth violence in a European context; Our theoretical frame; Using participatory research methods to study youth violence; Part 2: Responding meaningfully to youth violence; Working at the personal (P) level; Working at the community(C) level; Working at the structural (S) level; Working at the existential (E) level; Part 3: Rethinking youth work practice and policy; Rethinking some youth worker tales; Working with intersectional identities; Creating policy for good practice; Part 4: Youth work responses in action - case studies of praxis; Responding to structural and symbolic violence: A comparative case study; A sports based response to youth violence; Exploring “Confrontational Pedagogy”; Embedding Community Work; Ethnopraxis in action; Imagining realistic alternatives.
