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Out of Sight - Crime, youth and exclusion in modern Britain (Paperback)
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Out of Sight - Crime, youth and exclusion in modern Britain (Paperback)
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Youth crime is simultaneously a social problem and an intrinsic
part of consumer culture: while images of gangs and gangsters are
used to sell global commodities, young people not in work and
education are labelled as antisocial and susceptible to crime. This
book focuses on the lives of a group of young adults living in a
deprived housing estate situated on the edge of a large city in the
North of England. It investigates the importance of fashion, music
and drugs in young people's lives, providing a richly detailed
ethnographic account of the realities of exclusion, and explaining
how young people become involved in crime and drug use. Young men
and women describe their own personal experiences of exclusion in
education, employment and the public sphere. They describe their
history of exclusion as 'the life', and the term identifies how
young people grew up as objects of suspicion in the eyes of an
affluent majority. While social exclusion continues to be seen as a
consequence of young people's behaviour, Out of Sight: crime, youth
and exclusion in modern Britain examines how stigmatising poor
communities has come to define Britain's consumer society. The book
challenges the view underlying government policy that social
exclusion is a product of crime, antisocial behaviour and drug use,
and in focusing on one socially deprived neighbourhood it promotes
a different way of seeing the problematic relationship between
socially excluded young people, society and government.
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