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No Space of their Own: Young People and Social Control in Australia

Richard White

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Figures and tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Youth Policy and the New Vocationalism: The Adolescent Generation and the State: 1. Young people and policy: priority one? 2. Skills, youth training and a reconstructed Australia 3. Back to school and minimalist education Part II. Youth Crime, Moral Panics and Public Order: Media Images, the 'Youth Problem' and Social Regulation: 4. Car theft and the crime of no space 5. Young people, law and the street 6. Youth services and the role of 'soft cops' 7. Conclusion: control, space and rebellion References Index.

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Figures and tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Youth Policy and the New Vocationalism: The Adolescent Generation and the State: 1. Young people and policy: priority one? 2. Skills, youth training and a reconstructed Australia 3. Back to school and minimalist education Part II. Youth Crime, Moral Panics and Public Order: Media Images, the 'Youth Problem' and Social Regulation: 4. Car theft and the crime of no space 5. Young people, law and the street 6. Youth services and the role of 'soft cops' 7. Conclusion: control, space and rebellion References Index.

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Figures and tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Youth Policy and the New Vocationalism: The Adolescent Generation and the State: 1. Young people and policy: priority one? 2. Skills, youth training and a reconstructed Australia 3. Back to school and minimalist education Part II. Youth Crime, Moral Panics and Public Order: Media Images, the 'Youth Problem' and Social Regulation: 4. Car theft and the crime of no space 5. Young people, law and the street 6. Youth services and the role of 'soft cops' 7. Conclusion: control, space and rebellion References Index.

Key concepts: Moral panic, Space (punctuation), Social control, Public space, State (computer science), Criminology, Control (management), Youth studies

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