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Conundrums for youth policy and practice

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posted on 2023-05-22, 17:31 authored by Kitty te RieleKitty te Riele
As Bessant (2008, p. 347) points out with considerable dismay, more recently neurological science has been used to argue that young people as an entire cohort are “a ‘high risk group’ who are irresponsible, troublesome, rebellious, and even criminally inclined, and that this can be explained in terms of the biological development of the human brain”.

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Publication title

Interrogating conceptions of “vulnerable youth” in theory, policy and practice

Editors

K te Riele & R Gorur

Pagination

17-32

ISBN

978-94-6300-120-5

Department/School

Peter Underwood Centre

Publisher

Sense Publishers

Place of publication

Netherlands

Extent

14

Rights statement

Copyright 2015 Sense Publishers

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Equity and access to education

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