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Welcome
Generation
Youth Issues is an independent research and development charity
based in Prestwick, Scotland. Work is focused around children and
young people's peer relations and how they connect with adults in
their communities.
BOOK:
Scared
of the Kids?
With an introduction by Tony Jeffs the second edition
of Scared of the Kids? can be purchased from Abertay University
Press here.
BOOK:
The
Politics of Anti-Social Behaviour
Read
a review of the 'Politics if Anti-Social Behaviour: Amoral Panics'
by Stuart Waiton on spiked.
Purchase it through the link below.
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MEDIA
Recent
media contributions and articles of interest. For other contributions
click here.
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How
not to get freaked out with drugs
from TES 27/02/09
Despite the proclamation of the Know the Score drugs pamphlet,
What Every Parent Should Know, that it is about telling us
parents the “facts” and advising us not to use “scare
tactics”, the more I read it the more it reminds me of
Corporal Jones from Dad’s Army, writes Stuart Waiton.
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Relationships
by numbers
from TES 24/04/09
There is much discussion today about the problem of relationships
between people - in the home, on the street, and indeed between
teachers and pupils. It is often couched in terms of anti-social
behaviour, but there may be a bigger problem: the "anti-socialisation"
of young people., writes Stuart Waiton.
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Battle
of Ideas: Scared of the Kids
from FORA.tv
02/11/08
We
are regularly told Britain is in the grip of gun and knife
culture and gang warfare, with young people in particular
both committing violent crime, and suffering as victims of
it. Stuart Waiton joins the debate.
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CAMPAIGN:
Cotton
Wool Kids Can't Swim
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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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