NCJ Number
216891
Date Published
2006
Length
17 pages
Annotation
This chapter outlines the cumulative, intergenerational crises faced by Black and Asian young people as they attempt to form new identities and adapt to economic and social change from the 1970s to the present.
Abstract
Striking similarities of marginalization across different domains of transition were found to exist, from schooling, care, policing, and youth justice to employment, for many White, Black, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi working class young people growing up in Britain. Young Blacks in particular disproportionately find themselves under the supervision of a continuum of social control agencies. For these groups, three decades of deindustrialization and economic restructuring have worsened their social conditions, destabilized their families and neighborhoods, subjected them to harassment and discrimination by the police, the youth justice system, care and school systems, and offered them an uncertain future at the bottom of a relaxed youth labor market. Unless issues of discrimination and reform in schooling, policing, youth justice, and the relaxed labor market are addressed, then the social and economic processes identified will continue to racialize and criminalize working-class Black, Asian, and White young men. This chapter discusses the intersections of social class, place, and race, focusing on the cumulative intergenerational crises faced by Black and Asian young people spanning three decades. References