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Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York's Streets
Kristina E. Gibson
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Description for Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York's Streets
Paperback. An ethnographic investigation into the lives of street outreach workers and the homeless of New York City Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFFB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. Kristina Gibson argues that the enforcement of quality of life ordinances in New York City has spurred hyper-mobility amongst the city’s street youth population and has serious implications for social work with homeless youth. ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814732281
SKU
V9780814732281
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99-50
About Kristina E. Gibson
Kristina E. Gibson is assistant professor in residence of Geography, and the Urban and Community Studies Program at the University of Connecticut, Waterbury.
Reviews for Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York's Streets
Gibson offers an ethnographic exploration of outreach work with the homeless youth in New York City.
A. Dworsky
Choice
Gibson provides a major theoretical advance in our understanding of the spatial dynamics of youth homelessness.
Alex Vitale,author of City of Disorder Gibson’s thoughtful and sobering analysis of the hyper-mobility of homeless youth and the street is ... Read more
A. Dworsky
Choice
Gibson provides a major theoretical advance in our understanding of the spatial dynamics of youth homelessness.
Alex Vitale,author of City of Disorder Gibson’s thoughtful and sobering analysis of the hyper-mobility of homeless youth and the street is ... Read more