Still Blaming Children: Youth Conduct and the Politics of Child Hating (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

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The media-enhanced moral panic surrounding youth has continued unabated over the past two decades. Its form and substance varies, but the politics of blaming and exploiting children underlies it all. Despite the reality that rates for most youth crime have gone down, the public condemnation of youth, especially through the news media, continue unabated, and the position of children and youth in our societies is still as precarious as ever. Put bluntly, the lives of too many children and youth are fraught with potential danger. Not only are they the victims of excessive legal scrutiny and scapegoats for panic-driven public policy, but they also go off to war proportionately more than adults and they work at unskilled jobs for no benefits and insultingly low wages. Children and youth live outside the protections of human rights. STILL Blaming Children, an expanded and updated version of Blaming Children, shows how "getting tough" on young offenders ignores the reality of their lives and the reality of their misconduct. The book ends by describing more humane and mindful alternatives for youth offenders, based on the human rights our children deserve.

About the Author


Bernard Schissel is a professor of sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Blaming Children: Youth Crime, Moral Panics and the Politics of Hate. Bernard Schissel is a professor of sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Blaming Children: Youth Crime, Moral Panics and the Politics of Hate.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781552661864
ISBN-10: 1552661865
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date: January 1st, 2006
Pages: 167
Language: English