Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice - Tim Goddard, Randy Myers

Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice

Buch | Softcover
184 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-22813-2 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
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.
Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail and prison, improve hostile police–community relations, and rollback the "tough on crime" movement. Given that poor people, particularly poor people of color, make up the majority of those under carceral control in Western, industrial countries, can technical solutions, gradual reforms, and individual-level programming genuinely change the deeply entrenched carceral state that has been expanding in the US for over 40 years?

In this book, the authors offer an examination of the creative ideas that twelve US-based social justice organizations put forward for how participation in social change might spur not only individual-level change in young people, but community-wide mobilization against the harms resulting from the "tough on crime" movement and neoliberal policy. Using alternative programs grounded in political and social consciousness-raising, these organizations provide important and novel methods for how we might roll back carceral expansion. Their approaches resonate with scholarship in criminology and related fields; however, they sharply contrast with popular notions of "what works". The authors detail how community-based organizations must navigate not only these scientific forces, but the bureaucratic and financial ones consistent with neoliberal governance as well as the more formidable, less navigable political barriers that activate when organizations mobilize young people of color for social and carceral reform.

While aware of the formidable barriers they face, the authors highlight the emancipatory potential of community-based social justice organizations working with the most marginalized young people across several major US cities. Written in an accessible way, this book will be of interest to scholars, students, progressive policymakers, practitioners, and activists and their allies who are deeply troubled by the class and racial disparities that pervade the carceral state.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-22813-0 / 0367228130
ISBN-13 978-0-367-22813-2 / 9780367228132
Zustand Neuware
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