Troubles of Youth Lecture Materials

On this page you will find a brief lecture outline (hopefully before the lecture) and additional readings: click on the relevant links to access the materials.

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 Semester One

Lecture One: Introduction

Lec Two Criminological Theory.pdf 

Lecture Three: Contemporary Experience of Youth

Freedom's Orphans Summary

Geoff Pearson CJM

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Lecture Four: The Social Construction of Childhood and Youth

warner - adolescents from hell.doc

welch at al - moral panic over youth violence.pdf

Hendrick: Children and Childhood

Lecture Five: Video: You're Not Splitting up my Family

No notes for this week, of course, but a really interesting and unique documentary. It charts the story of a family: a father, his mother, and his two twin sons. The son's mother had died 4 years prior to the start of the film, which looks at the various interventions made into the two sons lives, mainly by social services.  This is interesting, but what I would like you to think about, and chart in some way, is the way the two boys move from one intervention to another, how their personal relationships change and affect them, and increasingly from one form of problematic behaviour to another. What are the influences on their lives (good and bad): could anything have been done differently for them: what were there own roles in determining the pathways they took as they grew up?

Lecture Six: Pathways into, and out of, Crime

This lecture will pick up on some of the themes of last week's video, and will look at the research into "pathways". The links below will be useful as a starting point.

KEY READINGS

Age and the Explanation of Crime: Hirschi and Gottfreson 

laub and sampson - understanding desistance.pdf

Terrie Moffitt - Adolescence-Limited and Life-course Persistent Antisocisl Behavior: A developmental taxonomy

David Farrington - Criminal Careers research in the UK.pdf  

ADDITIONAL READINGS

Why do the Young Turn to Crime: ESRC report

Patterns underlying the Age-Crime Curve 

SCOPIC Studies  (SCOPIC= Social Contexts of Pathways in Crime)

Lecture Seven: Young People and Risk Factors in Offending

No-fear-19.12.07.pdf 

Lecture Eight: Youth Culture and Sucbculture

Richard Wright et al - The Foreground Dynamics of Street Robbery 

Lecture Nine: Gender and Youth 

Lecture Ten: The Family and Crime