Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Foreword vi
5. Introduction 1
6. Literature review, theoretical frame and researching youth violence
7. Youth work and youth violence in a European context 13
8. Our theoretical frame 27
9. Using participatory methods to research youth violence 47
10. Meaningful responses to youth violence
11. Responding at the personal (P) level 71
12. Responding at the community (C) level 91
13. Responding at the structural (S) level 109
14. Responding at the existential (E) level 121
15. Rethinking youth work practice and policy
16. Rethinking some youth worker ‘tales’ 137
17. Working with intersectional identities 149
18. Creating policy for good practice 165
19. Youth work responses in action: case studies of praxis
20. Responding to structural and symbolic violence: a comparative case study 183
21. A sports-based response to youth violence 195
22. Exploring ‘confrontational pedagogy’ 209
23. Embedding community work 219
24. Ethnopraxis in action 227
25. Imagining realistic alternatives 237
26. References 247
27. Index 269