This article reviews current social policy and penal policy responses to risk, with particular
attention to how policies of responsibilization have implications for rights leading to an …

This article contributes to a social theory of resilience. It critiques aspects of developmental
and individual-level analyses in the resilience literature, arguing for the significance of social …

What counts as 'good'youth research? In considering a response to this important question,
at the very outset we would want to argue for the centrality of ethical practice. According to …

Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have
weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also …

This paper argues that a particular form of Selfhood has come to dominate the horizons of
identity in the Western democracies at this time—I refer to this form of personhood as the …

This is the first book to look closely at the concept of 'risk'in elite and professional football
from a social scientific perspective. Drawing on the wider sociological, criminological and …

Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—
home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it's …

Understanding the Life Course provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to the entire life
course from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining important insights from sociology …

ABSTRACT 'Youth'as a social category is used and abused in all manner of ways across an
array of fields, platforms, discourses and spaces, Youth Studies notwithstanding. When we …

Introduction Contemporary cities have often been referred to as 'fortress cities'(Davis 1992;
Tiesdell and Oc 1998; Graham and Marvin 2001; Webster et al. 2002). Demand from some …