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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812821203321

Autore

Hall Tom <1967->

Titolo

Better times than this : youth homelessness in Britain / / Tom Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2003

ISBN

1-84964-088-2

0-585-48899-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

362.7/086/942

Soggetti

Homeless youth - England - Southerton - Social conditions

Marginality, Social - England - Southerton

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 At the Hostel -- 3 In the Bedsits -- 4 On the Streets -- 5 Growing Apart? -- 6 Coming of Age -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABC project -- 20 -- 26 -- 28 -- 35 -- 36 -- 37 -- 38 -- 49 -- 51 -- 75 -- 77 -- 97 -- 98 -- 125 -- 126 -- 133 -- 135 -- accommodation, see bedsit accommodation --  -- 45 -- 48-9 -- 51 -- 132 -- bedsit accommodation,  2 -- bedsit accommodation,  48-75 -- deposits and rent in advance to secure,  37 -- deposits and rent in advance to secure,  42 -- deposits and rent in advance to secure,  49-51 -- deposits and rent in advance to secure,  55 -- deposits and rent in advance to secure,  60-3 -- deposits and rent in advance to secure,  64 -- deposits and rent in advance to secure,  74 -- deposits and rent in advance to secure,  108 -- deposits and rent in advance to secure,  132 -- evicted from,  19 -- evicted from,  30 -- evicted from,  39 -- evicted from,  42 -- evicted from,  54 -- evicted from,  63 -- evicted from,  64 -- evicted from,  65 -- evicted from,  72-5 -- evicted from,  81 -- evicted from,  95 -- evicted from,  97 -- evicted from,  110 -- evicted from,  126 -- getting by in,  112-14 -- getting by in,  115-16 -- Lime Street hostel, the adulthood, see youth transitions anthropology,  6 -- Lime Street hostel, the adulthood, see youth transitions anthropology,  14 -- Lime Street hostel, the adulthood, see youth transitions anthropology,  117 -- Lime Street hostel, the



adulthood, see youth transitions anthropology,  139 -- miserable in,  18 -- miserable in,  53-4 -- miserable in,  70-2 -- miserable in,  75 -- miserable in,  135-6 -- quality of,  2 -- quality of,  3 -- quality of,  48-9 -- security of tenure in,  3 -- security of tenure in,  48-9 -- security of tenure in,  52 -- security of tenure in,  72 -- security of tenure in,  132 -- serial residency in,  8.

serial residency in,  18 -- serial residency in,  42 -- serial residency in,  52-5 -- serial residency in,  75 -- serial residency in,  76 -- serial residency in,  100 -- serial residency in,  105 -- serial residency in,  131 -- serial residency in,  142 -- together in,  63-72 -- younger tenants and,  130-1 -- Benefits Agency 30 -- benefits, social security -- amount, and payment of,  30-1 -- amount, and payment of,  34 -- amount, and payment of,  60 -- amount, and payment of,  81 -- amount, and payment of,  95 -- attitudesto claiming,  58-9 -- attitudesto claiming,  102 -- attitudesto claiming,  112-13 -- attitudesto claiming,  128 -- attitudesto claiming,  138 -- Careers Service  16- and 17-year-olds and -- Careers Service  30 -- Careers Service  56-7 -- Careers Service  61 -- Careers Service  121 -- contributory and means-tested,  29 -- crisis loans and,  50-1 -- crisis loans and,  59 -- crisis loans and,  61 -- crisis loans and,  64 -- crisis loans and,  79 -- crisis loans and,  81 -- difficulties claiming,  29-30 -- difficulties claiming,  38 -- difficulties claiming,  42 -- difficulties claiming,  56-9 -- difficulties claiming,  81 -- difficulties claiming,  82 -- difficulties claiming,  84 -- difficulties claiming,  89 -- difficulties claiming,  104 -- difficulties claiming,  142 -- fraud and,  13 -- fraud and,  51 -- fraud and,  57 -- fraud and,  59 -- fraud and,  62 -- fraud and,  81 -- fraud and,  102 -- fraud and,  103-4 -- fraud and,  137 -- housing benefit,  22 -- housing benefit,  26 -- housing benefit,  27 -- housing benefit,  29 -- housing benefit,  30 -- housing benefit,  33 -- housing benefit,  48-51 -- housing benefit,  55 -- housing benefit,  60-3 -- housing benefit,  102 -- knowledge and understanding of,  57-8 -- knowledge and understanding of,  82 -- severe hardship payments,  61 -- signing on for,  23 -- signing on for,  29-31.

work and,  59-63 -- work and,  74 -- Bourdieu, Pierre 140-1 -- Careers Service -- 30 -- 38 -- 57 -- 58 -- 82 -- 84 -- 97 -- 98 -- 113 -- 114 -- 143 -- training schemes and placements care-leavers,  14 -- training schemes and placements care-leavers,  20 -- training schemes and placements care-leavers,  26 -- training schemes and placements care-leavers,  107 -- training schemes and placements care-leavers,  130 -- training schemes and placements care-leavers,  132 -- Conrad, Joseph 139-40 -- council housing -- 3 -- 45 -- 95 -- 103 -- 143 -- crime -- 21-2 -- 26 -- 87-92 -- 87-9 -- 104 -- 114-15 -- 136-7 -- court appearances and,  26 -- court appearances and,  36 -- court appearances and,  47 -- court appearances and,  81 -- court appearances and,  86 -- court appearances and,  89 -- court appearances and,  90-1 -- court appearances and,  97 -- court appearances and,  98 -- court appearances and,  113 -- court appearances and,  135 -- court appearances and,  138 -- drug use arrests and,  64 -- drug use arrests and,  69 -- drug use arrests and,  86 -- drug use arrests and,  88 -- drug use arrests and,  90 -- drug use arrests and,  98 -- drug use arrests and,  135 -- homelessness and,  91 -- income from,  89 -- prison and,  21-2 -- prison and,  84 -- prison and,  90 -- prison and,  91 -- prison and,  109-10 -- prison and,  129 -- slowing down and,  124-5 -- slowing down and,  127-8 -- underclass and,  101 -- violent offences and,  90-2 -- violent offences and,  98 -- young women and,  91 -- youth and,  117 -- youth and,  131 -- culture [and subculture] -- 8 -- 111-16 -- 112-15 -- 133-9 -- poverty and,  133-9 -- resistance and,  see also



resistance -- resistance and,  114-15 -- resistance and,  136-8 -- resistance clumsiness of,  139 -- underclass thesis and,  111-12 -- underclass thesis and,  133-9 -- Davies, Nick -- 7-8 -- 133 -- 139.

Department of Social Security -- [DSS]  9 -- [DSS]  10 -- [DSS]  30 -- [DSS]  33 -- [DSS]  47 -- [DSS]  49 -- [DSS]  50-1 -- [DSS]  56-7 -- [DSS]  58-9 -- [DSS]  60 -- [DSS]  61 -- [DSS]  62 -- [DSS]  63 -- [DSS]  64 -- [DSS]  79 -- [DSS]  80 -- [DSS]  81 -- [DSS]  84 -- [DSS]  89 -- [DSS]  98 -- [DSS]  102 -- [DSS]  114 -- [DSS]  122 -- [DSS]  138 -- [DSS]  142 -- [DSS]  143 -- drug use -- 8 -- 13 -- 13 -- 15 -- 23 -- 24 -- 26 -- 36 -- 41 -- 42 -- 47 -- 55 -- 56 -- 65 -- 65 -- 66 -- 67-71 -- 68 -- 69 -- 71 -- 81 -- 106 -- 108 -- 110 -- 111 -- 117 -- 125 -- amphetamine,  68 -- amphetamine,  69 -- at the Lime Street hostel,  26 -- at the Lime Street hostel,  27 -- at the Lime Street hostel,  28 -- cannabis,  59 -- cannabis,  67 -- cannabis,  69 -- cannabis,  74 -- cannabis,  84 -- cannabis,  106 -- counselling for,  41 -- counselling for,  108 -- crack cocaine,  68 -- overdoses as a result of,  136 -- problems arising from,  19 -- problems arising from,  67 -- problems arising from,  68 -- problems arising from,  74-5 -- problems arising from,  91 -- problems arising from,  132 -- rehabilitation centres and,  45 -- heroin  68 -- education -- 4 -- 21 -- 126 -- college,  36 -- college,  122 -- college,  126 -- college,  133 -- literacy and,  38 -- literacy and,  119 -- qualifications from,  3 -- qualifications from,  21 -- qualifications from,  59 -- qualifications from,  103 -- qualifications from,  108 -- qualifications from,  109 -- qualifications from,  113 -- qualifications from,  136 -- school,  21 -- school,  32 -- school,  42 -- school,  56 -- school,  88 -- school,  89 -- school,  101 -- school,  136 -- ethics, fieldwork 12-14 -- ethnography -- 6 -- 9-12 -- arguments with,  15 -- arguments with,  18 -- arguments with,  19-20 -- arguments with,  21 -- arguments with,  28 -- arguments with,  37 -- arguments with,  64 -- arguments with,  78.

arguments with,  86-7 -- arguments with,  135 -- returning to stay with,  31 -- returning to stay with,  38 -- returning to stay with,  45-6 -- returning to stay with,  54 -- returning to stay with,  64 -- returning to stay with,  77 -- returning to stay with,  108 -- support from,  50 -- support from,  61 -- support from,  103 -- support from,  108 -- support from,  126 -- fieldnotes 12 -- fieldwork and -- 9 -- 13-14 -- at the hostel,  34-5 -- at the hostel,  46 -- in low places,  122 -- outdoors with,  80-5 -- staying with,  3 -- staying with,  15 -- staying with,  19 -- staying with,  26 -- staying with,  28 -- staying with,  37 -- staying with,  38 -- staying with,  50-1 -- staying with,  54 -- staying with,  75 -- staying with,  76 -- staying with,  78 -- staying with,  80 -- staying with,  89 -- staying with,  135 -- staying with,  141 -- the negative influence of,  107-11 -- the negative influence of,  132 -- the negative influence of,  134 -- the support of,  90 -- the support of,  114 -- the support of,  115 -- the support of,  123 -- friends [and friendship] -- 34-5 -- 63-6 -- 80-5 -- 142 -- drugs and,  71 -- drugs and,  74 -- falling out with,  65 -- falling out with,  66 -- in the bedsits,  63-6 -- gossip and tall stories -- 16 -- 66-7 -- 89-93 -- Hannerz, Ulf 10-11 -- homelessness, youth -- and the hidden homeless,  2-3 -- choice and constraint and,  101-5 -- definitions of,  3 -- definitions of,  79-80 -- episodic nature of,  8 -- episodic nature of,  75 -- lifestyle reasons for rise in,  3-4 -- researching,  9-14 -- size of,  2-3 -- streets, the adapting to,  105-7 -- survivalism and,  114 -- the transition to adulthood and,  see also youth -- the transition to adulthood and,  117-24 -- transitions the underclass and,  see also underclass -- transitions the underclass and,  the -- transitions the underclass and,  5.



transitions the underclass and,  101.