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List of contents
1. Introduction, 2. Background, Context, and Description of the Social Justice Organizations, 3. Source Reduction of Delinquency and Youth Violence, 4. Navigating the Dilemmas of Funding and Reporting, 5. Negotiating Neoliberal Governance and the Political Limits of Community, 6. The Promise and Perils Faced: Grassroots Mobilizing and the Carceral State, Appendix A, Appendix B
About the author
Tim Goddard is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Florida International University in Miami, USA
Randy Myers is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Summary
Drawing on research on the work of twelve social justice organizations, this book examines the impact of community organizations on crime control and prevention, in the social context of neoliberal governance, disadvantage and deep exclusion.
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"Goddard and Myers are two of the most original academic activists working in the fields of youth and community. In this long-awaited book they examine the potential, the challenges and the enemies of alternative youth justice interventions aimed at raising individual and community consciousness of the relationships between poverty, racism and neoliberal carceralism. Like the US programmes Goddard and Myers describe, their acute analyses are revolutionary, timely and inspirational contributions to struggles for social and criminal justice."
Professor Pat Carlen, Open University, UK
"Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice is a breathtakingly fresh and radical analysis…. without doubt (it) has set a very high standard for what ‘impactful’ research in the field of youth crime and justice studies can potentially look like."Professor Jo Phoenix, Open University, British Journal of Criminology
