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Zusatztext This book is possibly unique. It combines the rigour of social science method with being immensely readable. Informationen zum Autor Howard Williamson teaches in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Throughout his life he has also worked as a practising youth worker and been involved in the development of public policy for young people in Wales, the UK, the European Commission and the Council of Europe. He has researched and lectured on a range of youth issues - including crime, education, training, health and housing - both in the UK and internationally, and was appointed CBE for services to young people in 2002. Klappentext Howard Williamson's 'Five Years' was a ground-breaking study of youth, poverty and crime in the 1970s. At its close, the boys he interviewed were left with few prospects and bleak futures. Twenty-five years later, Williamson returns to find out the sort of men these boys have become and narrates their stories in this extraordinary book.Of the original group of sixty-seven boys, seven are dead -- not one of natural causes. Williamson tracked down half of those remaining. Here they tell of their personal, family and social relationships, legal and illegal work, their experiences of the criminal justice system, and money. Contrary to what one might expect, their lives are startlingly diverse.The Milltown Boys Revisited is a riveting account of life on the edge during the Thatcher and Blair governments. It tells stories of dignity, human betterment and escape, of fatalism on the margins of criminal and drug cultures, and also of getting by in difficult circumstances. It is as much a celebration of individual resilience as an account of risk and vulnerability in the lives of the dispossessed. Zusammenfassung Howard Williamson's 'Five Years' was a ground-breaking study of youth, poverty and crime in the 1970s. At its close, the boys he interviewed were left with few prospects and bleak futures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Renewing Contact with the Milltown Boys * Methodology * Looking Back on Schooling * Teenage Dreams * Ducking and Diving, Dodging and Weaving: Employment 'Careers' * Criminal Careers: More Monty Python than Al Capone? * Housing Careers: Space Oddities? * Domestic Lives and Personal Relationships * As Fathers: The Children * Health: Drink, Drugs and Deterioration? * The Peer Group and Leisure Activities * Looking Forward, Looking Back * Conclusions: Did the Boys Keep Swinging?...
