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INTERVENTION
Exclusive society: Social exclusion, crime and difference in late
modernity
by Jock Young
Book description:
�The Exclusive Society is another tour de force. I am deeply
impressed by the rare combination of breath-taking erudition,
mastery of the so-called fact of the matter and clarity of both
purpose and presentation, all that topped up with supreme
argumentative power, a mixture which has become over the years
Jock Young's trade mark � few others can manage the same mix,
though many have tried�
In this major new work Jock Young charts the movement of the
social fabric in the last third of the twentieth century from an
inclusive society of stability and homogeneity to an exclusive
society of change and division.
He explores exclusion on three levels: economic exclusion from the
labour market; social exclusion between people in civil society;
and the ever-expanding exclusionary activities of the criminal
justice system. Taking account of the massive dramatic structural
and cultural changes that have beset our society and relating
these to the quantum leap in crime and incivilities, Jock Young
develops a major new theory based on a new citizenship and a
reflexive modernity.
This exciting and highly innovative new book will appeal widely �
to students and academics in sociology, criminology, cultural
studies and social theory. It is a major new work by one of the
most original academics writing today.
"This book analyses the transformation of the social fabric in
the last third of the twentieth century from an exclusive society
of stability and homogeneity to an exclusive society of change and
division.�
�This highly innovative book will appeal widely to every one
who likes o know what forces are currently influencing our
society.�
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INTERVENTION
Overcoming child abuse: A window on a world problem
By Michael Freeman
Book description:
� In this book, fifteen different contributors make clear what
is going on in their countries with regard to child abuse. Different
countries have different views as to what is abuse. Definitions of
child abuse differ, legal emphases vary and so do management
techniques. The essays reveal the importance of culture, structure,
and commitment to eradicate the problem.�
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INTERVENTION
Prevention and early intervention with children in need
By Michael Little and Kevin Mount
Book description:
This text is based on the fact that all children have needs.
Focusing on those who are in need, its main objective is to
improve knowledge about how needs can be prevented from emerging
in the first place � failing that, about how early action will
prevent them persisting. The essay is aimed at managers and
practitioners in health, education, social and police services
charged with supporting children in need, particularly children
who have or are likely to develop social and psychological
difficulties. More specifically, it aims to prove of some value to
those responsible for purchasing services on behalf of children in
need on the basis of a professional diagnosis or, in a managerial
capacity, for commissioning large blocks of provisions. The essay
reaches into many areas of professional work, including early
years day care, parental support, the response to family
dysfunction and domestic violence, work with juvenile delinquents
and young people with other behaviour problems, including some
aspects of mental health problems and those that lead to school
exclusion. The essay consists of two equal sections. The first
considers different ways of understanding children's needs and
their associated social and psychological problems. The second
looks at success and failure in responding to children's needs,
drawing wherever possible on carefully evaluated programmes and
referring to important overviews of research and some policy
driven initiatives.
�This book is one of the Darlington Social Research series dealing
with aspects of what is beginning to be known as a common language
for children's services. The aim is to build up knowledge about
different groups of children in need in a form that will be
readily understood by policy makers, professionals, researchers
and customers and to make it possible to predict outcomes for such
children and to design an effective agency response.�
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Violence: Reflections on a national epidemic
by
James Gilligan
Book description:
Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own
family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who
commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others but destroy
themselves rather than suffer a loss of self-respect. With devastating
clarity, Gilligan traces the role that shame plays in the etiology of
murder and explains why our present penal system only exacerbates it.
Brilliantly argued, harrowing in its portraits of the walking dead,
Violence should be read by anyone concerned with this national epidemic
and its widespread consequences.
"Extraordinary. Gilligan's recommendations concerning what does work to
prevent violence...are extremely convincing...A wise and careful,
enormously instructive book."
The most hopeful insight Gilligan offers about violence is: A person's
tortuous, shameful sense of self prompts the act of murder to
"symbolically" silence the ridicule one has endured. Does this sound
remarkably similar to those humiliated young teenagers who feel
compelled to avenge their pain with murderous revenge against their
taunting classmates? Gilligan's book offers a sign of hope, for if we
are able to significantly prevent violence, it will come from focusing
on the underlying "incapacitating feelings" we humans experience when we
are repeatedly emotionally wounded. In the new book on education
strategies for prevention of violence, it addresses our cultural
reluctance to educate children (and their parents) about the critical
importance of understanding their inner reaction to being emotionally
wounded. Gilligan, in his own way, seems to be advocating that violent
consequences follow blaming others for what we feel, and then
symbolically attempting to punish them (with murder) for our sense of
shame. We need more parents, teachers and emotional educators who can
demonstrate a healthy and honest way of dealing with emotional wounds
other than shaming ourselves or blaming others. It is not rocket science
to learn how to deal with painful feelings. It is just that we have a
deeply embedded cultural tendency to ignore and let our pain build up
within us until it erupts into what Gilligan calls the "ritual" of
murder. Few, if any, persons who commit violence were ever taught how to
name, own and honor their hurt feelings as a normal � not shameful �
part of their human vulnerability.
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YOUTH
The freedom writers diary: How a teacher and 150 teens used
writing to
change themselves and the world around them
By Zlata Filipovic and Freedom Writers
Book description:
When Gruwell was a first-year high school teacher in Long Beach,
CA, teaching the "unteachables" (kids that no other teacher wanted to
deal with), she discovered that most of her students had not heard of
the Holocaust. Shocked, she introduced them to books about tolerance
first-personal accounts by the likes of Anne Frank and Zlata
Filopvic, who chronicled her life in war-torn Sarajevo. The students
were inspired to start keeping diaries of their lives that showed the
violence, homelessness, racism, illness, and abuse that surrounded them.
These student diaries form the basis of this book, which is cut from the
same mold as Dangerous Minds: the outsider teacher, who isn't supposed
to last a month, comes in and rebuilds a class with tough love and hard
work. Most readers will be proud to see how these students have
succeeded; at the end of their four-year experience, the Freedom Writers
as they called themselves, in honor of the Freedom Riders of the 1960s
had all graduated; Grunwell now works at the college level, instructing
teachers on how to provide more interactive classes for their students.
Recommended for youth, education, and urban studies collections.
�I wish that everyone who doubts that one person could possibly
make a difference in the world would read this book. Talk about
inspiration! Erin Gruwell, as a beginning teacher who was "stuck" with
the students that no one else wanted to teach, transformed those 150
students over the course of their four years in high school into a group
of passionate, determined young men and women instead of the doomed
nobodies that they originally saw themselves to be. These teens have
lived terrible lives, survived situations that many people try to
pretend don't even exist, and have come to adulthood believing in
themselves for the first time. Many of the journal entries in this book
actually made me cry.�
�I am a beginning teacher myself, and though my students are not
the at-risk youth that Ms. Gruwell taught, I can strongly identify with
her and with her accomplishments � giving me hope that someday I can
make as significant a contribution to my community that she has to
hers.�
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YOUTH
You hear me: Poems and writing by teenage boys
By
Betsy Franco
Book description:
Grade 7 Up-Through these mostly free-verse lines, the hopes, dreams,
fears, and desires of young men from different cultures and backgrounds
shine through. They pull no punches with their words in these openly
honest, raw, and sometimes tender selections. They talk about what you'd
expect-drugs, girls, AIDS, sex, parents-sometimes in unexpected ways.
For example, 12-year-old Quantedius Hall's first stanza-"Time Somebody
Told Me/That I am lovely, good and real/That I am beautiful inside/If
they only knew/How that would make me feel." What do these boys want? "I
want to live my life/through peace and knowledge./-I want to wake up/to
clean, fresh air/blowing in my face," says 14-year-old John Merrell.
Others speak of the fear of alternately being abandoned and loved, of
being shunned or ridiculed. Obviously, there's some harsh language and
tough situations but they add to the believability and timeliness of the
words.
The poetry is rooted in a wide range of neighborhoods,
families, and classrooms, and the language is direct and frank, with a
rhythm ("I'm / not a / hip hop / Dred / retro / 4-pierced brother") and
a physical immediacy in the imagery.You Hear Me? is a
fresh approach to hearing what today's youths have to say, and it's
refreshing that the words came straight from them.
There are no intrusive illustrations, just the images and music of the
words, and lots of white space that makes it easy to browse. Many teens
will recognize their search for themselves
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Left Back: A Century of Battles
over School Reform
by Diane Ravitch
Book description:
For the past one hundred years, Americans have argued and worried
about the quality
of their schools. Some charged that students were not learning
enough, while others
complained that the schools were not furthering social progress. In
Left Back, education
historian Diane Ravitch describes this ongoing battle of ideas and
explains why school reform
has so often disappointed. She recounts grandiose efforts to use the
schools for social
engineering, even while those efforts diminished the schools'
ability to provide a high-quality
education for all children. By illuminating the history of education
in the twentieth century,
Left Back points the way to reviving American schools today.
For more � see
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