
Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice
By: Randy Myers, Tim Goddard
Paperback | 31 March 2021 | Edition Number 1
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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.
About the Authors
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
Industry Reviews
"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
ISBN: 9780367228132
ISBN-10: 0367228130
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
Published: 31st March 2021
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 184
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6 x 0.99
Weight (kg): 0.27
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