Youth And Social Policy

This book is intended as a key text for advanced undergraduates in social policy, social work, and youth/community work. It can also be used as a supplementary text for sociology of education/work/stratification, criminology, education, and personal reference for researchers and practitioners.

1 Youth, youth transitions and social policy Part 1 Towards a framework for youth policy 2 The re-structuration of youth: the school-to[1]work transition 3 The re-structuration of youth: family structure and family relationships 4 Youth citizenship and its changing context 5 Youth and citizenship: the legal context of young people's rights Part 2 Social policy and vulnerable youth 6 Young people in, and leaving, the public care 7 Young people with special needs and Disabilities 8 Young people and careers involving crime 9 Beyond the underclass debate and towards a framework for youth policy into the twenty[1]first century Appendix: Towards a paradigm of rights for young people