Runaways
Subtitle: how the sixties counterculture shaped today's practices and policies
By: Karen M. Staller.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Runaway teenagers -- Services for -- United States.; Runaway teenagers -- Government policy -- United States.; Runaway teenagers -- United States -- History.; Nineteen sixties.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: a personal journey to some research questions; title: Testing freedom: on the road to a runaway problem; title: Constructing runaway youth; title: Media myth spinning: from runaway adventurers to street survivors (1960-1978); title: Spinning myths from runaway lives: a hip beat version of dropping out; title: Psychedelic social workers and alternative services; title: Digger free: power in autonomy, independence in a free city network (1966-1968); title: The grassroots rise of alternative runaway services (1967-1974); title: Policy and "runaway" youth; title: Shifting institutional structures: from moral guidance to autonomous denizens (1960-1978); title: Legitimization through legislation-the Runaway Youth Act: national attention to the runaway problem (1971-1974); title: Conclusions: where we've been, where we're going, what we've learned; title: National extensions-problem, services, and policy (1974-&thinsp;); title: Closing note: lessons learned and conveyed; title: Appendix 1: Runaway Youth Act (Senate version, s. 2829: the Bayh/Cook bill); title: Appendix 2: Runaway Youth Act (House version, h. 9298); title: Appendix 3: the Runaway Youth Act of 1974 (p.l. 93-415).