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Imagining 'radical' youth work possibilities - challenging the 'symbolic violence' within the mainstream tradition in contemporary state-led youth work practice in England (2011)
Journal Article
Cooper, C. (2012). Imagining 'radical' youth work possibilities - challenging the 'symbolic violence' within the mainstream tradition in contemporary state-led youth work practice in England. Journal of Youth Studies, 15(1), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2011.618489

This paper critically assesses the contemporary mainstream state-led youth work tradition in England. Its particular focus is possibilities within this tradition for engaging disadvantaged young people in activities that facilitate resistance to oppr... Read More about Imagining 'radical' youth work possibilities - challenging the 'symbolic violence' within the mainstream tradition in contemporary state-led youth work practice in England.

Prison(er) auto/biography, 'true crime', and teaching, learning, and research in criminology (2011)
Journal Article
Dearey, M., Petty, B., Thompson, B., Lear, C. R., Gadsby, S., & Gibbs, D. (2011). Prison(er) auto/biography, 'true crime', and teaching, learning, and research in criminology. Critical Survey, 23(3), 86-102. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2011.230307

The main aim of this essay is to explore prisoner life writing within the specific, richly and multiply dependent context of teaching and learning undergraduate criminology at an English university, from the authorial viewpoint of a teacher and her s... Read More about Prison(er) auto/biography, 'true crime', and teaching, learning, and research in criminology.