Vulnerability and young people : care and social control in policy and practice / [electronic resource]
Brown, Kate,author.
This book draws on in-depth research with marginalised young people and the professionals who support them to explore the implications of a 'vulnerability zeitgeist', asking how far the rise of vulnerability in welfare and criminal justice processes serves the interests of those who are most disadvantaged.
VULNERABILITY AND YOUNG PEOPLE; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements ; 1. The vulnerability zeitgeist ; Researching vulnerability: motivations and aims ; 'Vulnerability' and 'youth': contested territories of care and control ; Theoretical orientations; Research methods and the case study investigation ; Structure of the book and key messages ; 2. Making sense of vulnerability ; Introduction; Natural or innate vulnerability and child development ; Situational vulnerability and 'deservingness'; Social disadvantage and spaces of vulnerability
Universal vulnerability and the vulnerability thesis writersVulnerability and risk: similarities and differences ; Chapter summary ; 3. The rise of vulnerability in social policy ; Introduction; Mapping vulnerability in policy and practice; Vulnerable groups and vulnerable identities; Vulnerability, discretion and subtle social control ; Vulnerability and citizenship; Chapter summary ; 4. Vulnerability management ; Introduction; Classifications and understandings of vulnerability in practice ; The vulnerability-transgression nexus: the subtleties beyond the binary
Vulnerability and gender: the feminisation of vulnerability?Chapter summary ; 5. Vulnerable young people's lives; Introduction; Vulnerable youth: difficult lives, multiple disadvantages ; Transgression and vulnerability; Imagined futures; Chapter summary; 6. Vulnerable identities? ; Introduction; Young people's understandings of vulnerability ; Vulnerable? Not me, not now ; Receptiveness to vulnerability classifications ; Optimism, resistance and 'vulnerable identities'; Chapter summary; 7. The social mediation of vulnerability; Introduction; Childhood development and vulnerability
Experiences of care and social control processes Vulnerability in context: wider structural influences ; Chapter summary ; 8. Vulnerability, behavioural regulation and 'revolting subjects' ; Introduction; Overview of findings ; Mismatched understandings of vulnerability: expectations and realities ; Dimensions of vulnerability ; The vulnerable citizen: the social division of social control ; Subtle shades of care and social control: towards a more excluding society ; Implications for policy, practice and research; Concluding reflections; Appendix: Pen portraits of vulnerable young people
Alicia, female, 16, White British Anna, female, 12, White Eastern European; Brook, female, 16, White British; Charlie, female, 16, White British; Chris, male, 17, British Pakistani; Elle, female, 14, Black African; Hayley, female, 16, White British ; Jade A, female, 17, White British; Jade B, female, 16, White British; Jay Jay, male, 17, White British;  'Jeremy Clarkson', male, 15, British Bangladeshi; Jess, female, 15, White British; John, male, 16, White British; Keith, male, 16, White British ; Kotaa, female, 12, Romany Gypsy; Laura, female, 16, White British
Mackenzie, male, 16, White British
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2022).
This book draws on in-depth research with marginalised young people and the professionals who support them to explore the implications of a 'vulnerability zeitgeist', asking how far the rise of vulnerability in welfare and criminal justice processes serves the interests of those who are most disadvantaged.
Young adults
Young adults
Conflict of generations.