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Welcome
Generation
Youth Issues is an independent research and development charity
based in Glasgow, Scotland. Work is focused around children and
young people's peer relations and how they connect with adults in
their communities.
RESEARCH:
Cotton
Wool Kids?
Download Cotton Wool Kids? Making Sense of Child
Safety edited by Stuart Waiton and Stuart Baird here.
BOOK:
The Politics of Anti-Social Behaviour
Antisocial
behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that
dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a
new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime,
this book by Stuart Waiton reposes the increasingly important debate
around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea
of moral panics. Through a critical engagement with theories of
risk, the book develops Furedi’s understanding of a Culture
of Fear to illustrate how firstly, society today is best understood
to be in a permanent state of anxiety, and secondly, how this state
of affairs has arisen due to the collapse of traditional politics
and morality, and equally, of radical alternatives to it. Central
to Waiton's thesis is an explanation of the changing therapeutic
relationship between the individual and society based on an understanding
of diminished subjectivity and the newly emerged ‘vulnerable
public’. Purchase from Amazon via the link below.
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Media
Recent
media contributions and articles of interest. For other contributions
click here.
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Politics
not society is broken
from TES 25/07/08
The
latest panic about knife crime is interesting to observe,
as we move from the occasional news story to saturation coverage
- front page protestations by newspapers, police pronouncements
that knife crime is now more of a problem than terrorism,
political proposals and counter proposals, comments Stuart
Waiton.
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Don't
blame parents for 'cotton wool kids'
from spiked
06/08/08
An
ICM survey commissioned by Play England for Playday - the
annual celebration of children’s right to play, which
takes place today, 6 August - reportedly shows that over-cautious
parents are ‘spoiling’ children’s playtime,
says Helene Guldberg.
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Getting
drunk not unlawful
from
TES 27/06/08
Whoever
is in power in Scotland, be it Labour or the SNP, and whoever
wins an election in England, be it Red Ken or Blue Boris,
the illiberal obsessive interference in everyday life churns
ever onwards, states Stuart Waiton.
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CAMPAIGN:
Cotton
Wool Kids Can't Swim
Linked
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Debating
Matters
The
Institute of Ideas and Pfizer Debating Matters Competition
is a new style of national debating competition for sixth
form students. The fresh and engaging Debating Matters format
is injecting new life into school debating.
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CAMPAIGN:
Adult
Solidarity
The
case against vetting
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Youth Issues supports the Manifesto Club publication 'The Case Against
Vetting'. Find out more at The
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