Binding: Paperback
Description: The Milltown Boys at Sixty is a story like no other giving both an insider and an outsider view of the Milltown Boys exploring the nature of an ethnographic relationship based on research about their experiences of the criminal justice system. A group classically labelled as delinquents drug - takers and drop - outs the Boys were also in many different ways fathers friends and family men differentially immersed in the labour market in very different family relationships and now very differently connected to criminal activity. Williamson has written books capturing their experiences over the fifty years of his continued association with them: about their teenage years; and twenty years later in middle - age. This book is about them as they pass the age of 60, providing a personal account of the relationship between Williamson and the Boys and the distinctive perhaps even controversial research methodology that enabled the mapping of their lives. It provides a unique and detailed insight into the ways in which the lives of the Milltown Boys that started with such shared beginnings have unfolded in so many diverse and fascinating ways. These accounts will be of interest to the lay reader curious about the way others have managed (or failed to manage) their lives the professional who works with those living often struggling on the wrong side of the tracks and the academic researching and teaching about social exclusion substance misuse criminal justice transitions and the life course.
Title: The Milltown Boys At Sixty The Origins And Destinations Of Young Men From A Poor Neighbourhood
Author(s): Williamson Howard (University Of South Wales Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367725228
Pages: 210 Pages, 6 Tables, Black And White; 1 Line Drawings, Black And White; 2 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 5/10/2021
Category: Social Work