Working With Violence

Lessons for Street Youth Workers Around Working with Violence

Mike Seal, from the Newman University College, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Crime Prevention,” under the title “Lessons for Street Youth Workers Around Working with Violence”. Here is the abstract: Theoretical understanding of street violence is reasonably well established More recently, much work has been done on the nature of street violence, its effects on communities, how and why it emerges, and how it manifests in certain geographical areas, etc. Much less focus has been given to the interventions made by professionals who work in this area and how these interventions are experienced by those young people involved in, or affected by, street violence. The youth work team at Newman are engaged in a participatory project that aims to examine, and thereby improve, the contribution street-based youth work can make in working with street violence across Bradford, Birmingham, Islington, Graz in Austria and Kohn in Germany. This workshop will explore some of the emerging findings of the research. These can be themed around the questions why? – what are the dynamics of street violence and perceptions of violence by young people and workers? Who? – who should intervene in these issues and what are the characteristics of effective street based youth workers and what? – what are effective interventions on the topic of street violence and what gets in the way such as policy.[rtbs name=”criminology”]

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• “Lessons for Street Youth Workers Around Working with Violence”, by Mike Seal (Proceedings)