The construction of at-risk youth: a qualitative study of community-based youth-serving agencies

This thesis explores the ways in which the ‘at-risk’ designation of marginalized and disadvantaged youth within youth-serving agencies contributes to a program of governance within a neoliberalized welfare state. I argue that while there is considerable resistance to the risk designation within you...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Curran, Amelia
Other Authors: Comack, Elizabeth (Sociology)
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4087