Disconnected youth?

the long version

What is it like to grow up in Britain's poor neighbourhoods? How do young people get by in high unemployment, high crime localities? Have they become a 'lost generation', disconnected from society's mainstream? And do popular ideas about a socially excluded, welfare dependent 'underclass' really connect with the realities of life for Britain's young and poor? Disconnected Youth? seeks to answer these questions. It is based on recent, in-depth research undertaken in a locality that suffers all the objective problems of social exlusion in extremis. Extensive participant obeservation and qualitative interviews with a diverse set of so-called 'disengaged' and 'difficult-to-reach' young men and women provide a rare insight into the lived experience of social exclusion. A book for students, researchers and professionals.