Description
Book SynopsisIn the post-Ryan Report (2009) on child abuse in the modern state, this book is the first study to document and analyse the issues in a frank exposé that challenges many of the myths about children and young people in Ireland. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Youth narratives and youth Movements
1. The search for an Irish youth narrative: minor citizens or urban tribe?
2. Remoralising working class youth: women, religion and morality in nineteenth and early twentieth century Ireland
3. Constructing imperial man: uniformed youth movements in Britain and Ireland
4. Building national identity: youth movements and nationalism in twentieth century Ireland
Part II: Youth policy and practice
5. The co-production of a service: active citizenship, youth work and the State
6. Mapping the contemporary youth work landscape: models, objectives and key issues
7. Negotiating tensions and contradictions in youth crime prevention initiatives in Ireland
Part III: Disadvantaged young people, institutionalisation and human rights: The Ryan Report in perspective
8. Outcast youth and public policy: institutionalisation, social genetics and charity
9. Child abuse, youth policy and human rights: contextualising the Ryan Report
10. In search of truth and reconciliation: The Ryan Report from the survivors’ perspective
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