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.
Also, please note that when you open the lecture notes, you do not need to print them out "one slide to a sheet": When you open the file, click on the printer icon, and in "Page Scaling" select "Multiple Sheets per sheet", and then select how many you want on a page.
Semester One
Lecture Three: Contemporary Experience of Youth
Lec 3 - The Contemporary Experience of Youth.pdf
Freedom's Orphans Summary
Geoff Pearson CJM
hall and winlow - crime culture and instrumentalism.pdf
Barnardos - demonisation of Children
Lecture Four: The Social Construction of Childhood and Youth
Lec 4 - The Social Construction of Youth and Childhood.pdf
warner - adolescents from hell.doc
welch at al - moral panic over youth violence.pdf
Hendrick Children and Childhood.pdf
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 week, we will finish the video, and then a short lecture will pick up on some of the themes, and will look at how criminologists have address issues relating age to offending. These will then lead on to next weeks stuff. Remember you have two articles to read for the seminar (the "Key Readings listed below)
Lecture Notes:
Lec 6 - Age and Criminal Activity 0809.ppt
KEY READINGS
Age and the Explanation of Crime: Hirschi and Gottfreson
David Farrington - Criminal Careers research in the UK.pdf
ADDITIONAL READINGS
laub and sampson - understanding desistance.pdf
Terrie Moffitt - Adolescence-Limited and Life-course Persistent Antisocisl Behavior: A developmental taxonomy
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: Criminal Careers: Perspectives, Debates and Controversies
Lec 7 - Criminal Careers.ppt
For related Seminar Reading see the "Seminar Materials" page
Lecture Eight: Young People and Risk
Note: this week's lecture notes will be there before the lecture, but possibly only an hour or so before-hand. Apologies - illness (not mine!) at home all weekend has resulted in a delay in getting the notes here.
Additional Reading
BBC News - "Safety rules harming kids"
Astroth - Are youth at risk?
No-fear-19.12.07.pdf
Lecture Nine: Youth Culture and Subculture
Richard Wright et al - The Foreground Dynamics of Street Robbery
Lecture Ten: Gender and Youth
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