Hailed as a means to transform cultural norms and change lives, violence prevention programs signal a slow-rolling policy revolution that has reached nearly two-thirds of young people in the United... Read More
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Hailed as a means to transform cultural norms and change lives, violence prevention programs signal a slow-rolling policy revolution that has reached nearly two-thirds of young people in the United States today. Max A. Greenberg takes us inside the booming market for programming and onto the asphalt campuses of Los Angeles where these programs are implemented, many just one hour a week for 12 weeks. He spotlights how these ephemeral programs, built on troves of risk data, are disconnected from the lived experiences of the young people they were created to support. Going beyond the narrow stories told about at-risk youth through data and in policy, Greenberg sketches a vivid portrait of young men and women coming of age and forming relationships in a world of abiding harm and fleeting, fragmented support. At the same time, Greenberg maps the minefield of historical and structural inequalities that program facilitators must navigate to build meaningful connections with the youth they serve. Taken together, these programs shape the stories and politics of a generation and reveal how social policy can go wrong when it ignores the lives of young people.
Details
- Price: $29.95
- Pages: 248
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Imprint: University of California Press
- Publication Date: 12th February 2019
- Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
- Illustration Note: 4 b-w images
- ISBN: 9780520297760
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Reviews
- Process North"The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under."
Author Bio
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. In Medias Res
2. How Violence Became Preventable
3. Statistical Lives
4. Familiar Strangers
5. Stories Come Apart
6. The State of Adults
Epilogue: The Future
Appendix: An Ephemeral Ethnography
Notes
References
Index
1. In Medias Res
2. How Violence Became Preventable
3. Statistical Lives
4. Familiar Strangers
5. Stories Come Apart
6. The State of Adults
Epilogue: The Future
Appendix: An Ephemeral Ethnography
Notes
References
Index
Hailed as a means to transform cultural norms and change lives, violence prevention programs signal a slow-rolling policy revolution that has reached nearly two-thirds of young people in the United States today. Max A. Greenberg takes us inside the booming market for programming and onto the asphalt campuses of Los Angeles where these programs are implemented, many just one hour a week for 12 weeks. He spotlights how these ephemeral programs, built on troves of risk data, are disconnected from the lived experiences of the young people they were created to support. Going beyond the narrow stories told about at-risk youth through data and in policy, Greenberg sketches a vivid portrait of young men and women coming of age and forming relationships in a world of abiding harm and fleeting, fragmented support. At the same time, Greenberg maps the minefield of historical and structural inequalities that program facilitators must navigate to build meaningful connections with the youth they serve. Taken together, these programs shape the stories and politics of a generation and reveal how social policy can go wrong when it ignores the lives of young people.
- Price: $29.95
- Pages: 248
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Imprint: University of California Press
- Publication Date: 12th February 2019
- Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
- Illustrations Note: 4 b-w images
- ISBN: 9780520297760
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
– Process North"The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under."
Acknowledgments
1. In Medias Res
2. How Violence Became Preventable
3. Statistical Lives
4. Familiar Strangers
5. Stories Come Apart
6. The State of Adults
Epilogue: The Future
Appendix: An Ephemeral Ethnography
Notes
References
Index
1. In Medias Res
2. How Violence Became Preventable
3. Statistical Lives
4. Familiar Strangers
5. Stories Come Apart
6. The State of Adults
Epilogue: The Future
Appendix: An Ephemeral Ethnography
Notes
References
Index