Young People, Welfare and Crime: Governing Non-Participation

by Ross Fergusson

Widespread youth unemployment is rapidly becoming a major--and seemingly endemic--problem around the world. And, increasingly, young people themselves are being blamed, their nonparticipation in the workforce criminalized. Ross Fergusson here mounts a powerful critique of current approaches to youth unemployment, reexamining its causes and consequences from a wide range of perspectives and revealing the structural and cultural problems that underlie...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447307011
• ISBN13: 9781447307013
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"