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

• Autore: Hall Tom <1967->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.7/086/942
• Soggetto topico: Homeless youth - England - Southerton - Social conditions; Marginality, Social - England - Southerton
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Better times than this
• ISBN: 1-84964-088-2; 0-585-48899-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812821203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II