Youth Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Offending Girls

   Young Women and Youth Justice

   By Gilly Sharpe

   At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls’ offending in Britain reached fever pitch. No longer sugar and spice, a ‘new breed’ of girl, the hedonistic, violent, binge-drinking ‘ladette’, was reported to have emerged. At the same time, the number of young women entering the youth...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Willan
2. Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play

   Policy, Intervention and Participation

   Edited by Andrew Parker, Don Vinson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Sport, physical activity and play are key constituents of social life, impacting such diverse fields as healthcare, education and criminal justice. Over the past decade, governments around the world have begun to place physical activity at the heart of social policy, providing increased...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1932

   By Matthias Neumann

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   The study of Soviet youth has long lagged behind the comprehensive research conducted on Western European youth culture. In an era that saw the emergence of youth movements of all sorts across Europe, the Soviet Komsomol was the first state-sponsored youth organization, in the first communist...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Boy Racer Culture

   Youth, Masculinity and Deviance

   By Karen Lumsden

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Sociology of Youth Culture and Youth Subcultures (Routledge Revivals)

   Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll?

   By Michael Brake

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1980, this book argues that subcultures are formed in defence of collectively experienced problems that arise from defects and contradictions in social structures. It looks at the development of post-war youth culture in a sociological context and considers the class base of...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Understanding Society through Popular Music

   2nd Edition

   By Joe Kotarba, Bryce Merrill, J Patrick Williams, Phillip Vannini

   Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, the second edition of Understanding Society through Popular Music uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Risk Assessment for Juvenile Violent Offending

   Edited by Anna Baldry, Andreas Kapardis

   This volume is the result of an EU project involving two different European countries (Italy and Cyprus) on risk and needs assessment for juvenile violent offenders. The book is based on a longitudinal data base of juveniles who have committed violent crimes and who have been followed up after ...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Willan
8. Blurring The Boundaries

   The Declining Significance of Age

   By Jack Levin

   Over the decades, the lines separating young- middle-aged-, and older adults have blurred, as indicated by a broadening of the appropriate years for making life decisions. Not only are many people marrying later, but some are marrying earlier than ever. Overall, women giving birth later...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. Youth, Arts, and Education

   Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect

   By Anna Hickey-Moody

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   How are the arts important in young people’s lives? Youth, Arts and Education offers a groundbreaking theory of arts education. Anna Hickey-Moody explores how the arts are ways of belonging, resisting, being governed and being heard. Through examples from the United Kingdom and Australia, Anna...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research

    Edited by Kitty te Riele, Rachel Brooks

    Series: Critical Youth Studies

    Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines. Unlike literature that tends to discuss youth research at an abstracted...

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge