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2 results foundAuthor: GoWell Title: Who says teenagers are a serious problem? GoWell's findings on householder perceptions of youth related problems in deprived areas of Glasgow Summary: Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, is receiving significant investment in regeneration aimed at improving and transforming disadvantaged homes, neighbourhoods and communities. GoWell is a research and learning programme that aims to investigate the impact of investment in Glasgow’s regeneration on the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities over a ten-year period. In 2006 GoWell researchers surveyed 6,008 adult householders (aged 16 years or over) in 14 relatively deprived Glasgow neighbourhoods to obtain an initial picture of what people thought about their homes, neighbourhoods and communities. One of the findings that stood out was that just over half the householders we spoke to perceived teenagers hanging around the street to be a problem in their local area. It was the kind of finding that could attract headlines – but we know that many people are critical of headlines that encourage negative stereotyping of young people. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2008) described a ‘general climate of intolerance and negative public attitudes toward children, especially adolescents’ in the UK. Nonetheless, policies associated with antisocial behaviour often focus on young people: for example the most recent Scottish Government Framework on preventing anti-social behaviour makes over 100 references to young people. We have therefore produced a briefing paper to consider the findings in more detail (this is only the first part of a much larger programme of analysis into the issue). Details: Glasgow, Scotland: GoWell, 2010. 12p. Source: Briefing Paper 8: Internet Resource: Accessed September 20, 2012 at http://www.gowellonline.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=145&Itemid=67 Year: 2010 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.gowellonline.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=145&Itemid=67 Shelf Number: 126381 Keywords: Anti-Social Behavior (Scotland)Juvenile Delinquency (Scotland)Neighborhoods and Crime (Scotland)Public Opinion (Scotland) |
Author: GoWell Title: Young people's experience of intolerance, antisocial behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged areas of Glasgow Summary: The view that intolerance towards young people is rife in the UK has been widely advanced. UK surveys show that a substantial minority of adults describe teenagers as a serious problem in their local area. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child recently singled out the UK for its ‘general climate of intolerance and negative public attitudes towards children, especially adolescents’. In this paper, we explore young people’s own perspectives on intolerance and antisocial behaviour (ASB) using interviews and focus groups involving young residents of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Glasgow. We found evidence that young people believed they were the object of conscious and unconscious stereotyping by adults. In addition, young people held negative perceptions of other young people in their neighbourhood and used similar stereotypes to the adults in the neighbourhood. We also found evidence of young people experiencing ASB and taking steps to secure their own safety within the neighbourhood. We conclude that while young people may be the object of adult intolerance, they are also actively developing their own social attitudes about their peers and community that at times appear unsafe to them. Therefore, policy and practice in this area need to reflect two broad interpretations of young people’s ASB: one that emphasises the involvement of young people in such behaviour and another that focuses on negative attitudes towards young people. Details: Glasgow, Scotland: GoWell, 2011. 12p. Source: Briefing Paper 16: Internet Resource: Accessed September 20, 2012 at http://www.gowellonline.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=215&Itemid=218 Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.gowellonline.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=215&Itemid=218 Shelf Number: 126383 Keywords: Anti-Social Behavior (Scotland)Disadvantaged Neighborhoods (Scotland)Juvenile Delinquency (Scotland)Neighborhoods and Crime (Scotland)Public Opinion (Scotland) |