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abiding harm
at risk youth
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coming of age
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fleeting support
forming relationships
generation
historical inequalities
lived experiences
los angeles
meaningful connections
policy revolution
politics
program facilitators
programming
programs
risk data
serving youth
social policy
structural inequalities
support
united states
violence prevention
young men and women
young people
Product details
- ISBN 9780520297760
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2019
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hailed as a means to transform cultural norms and change lives, violence prevention programs signal a slow-rolling policy revolution that has reached nearly two-thirds of young people in the United States today. Max A. Greenberg takes us inside the booming market for programming and onto the asphalt campuses of Los Angeles where these programs are implemented, many just one hour a week for 12 weeks. He spotlights how these ephemeral programs, built on troves of risk data, are disconnected from the lived experiences of the young people they were created to support. Going beyond the narrow stories told about at-risk youth through data and in policy, Greenberg sketches a vivid portrait of young men and women coming of age and forming relationships in a world of abiding harm and fleeting, fragmented support. At the same time, Greenberg maps the minefield of historical and structural inequalities that program facilitators must navigate to build meaningful connections with the youth they serve. Taken together, these programs shape the stories and politics of a generation and reveal how social policy can go wrong when it ignores the lives of young people.
Max A. Greenberg is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Boston University. He is the coauthor of Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women.
