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im adult arent i understanding juvenile delinquency and creating adults out of children the case for a formal rite of passage
essential reading for policy makers and practitioners alike seeks to address juvenile delinquency by advocating new government policies regarding youth socialization . takes the youth crime debate further by looking for answers in societies other than our own and argues for rites of passage for young people im adult arent i is a book with a mission to create adults out of children . other societies manage this well theres no reason why ours should not . in the matter of socializing unruly youth we find success in societies some poor some not so poor that are highly ritualised . in im adult arent i geoffrey ben nathan applies lessons to be learned from these societies to the difficulties of young people in our own communities . the book asserts that juvenile delinquency and anti social behaviour are childrens own impromptu substitutes for rites of passage . all too often we have crimes of passage that might have been pre empted by a rite of passage . only by the process of rite and ritual ben nathan argues can people children included be translated quickly and successfully from one social status to another . having analysed the role of ritual and myth in such transitions im adult arent i concludes with an imaginative but viable rite of passage suited to the conditions of our own society . this book represents a break through in understanding anti social youth behaviour and identifying the real cause of youth crime . in doing so it offers us the heady prospect of a practical means of transforming our youth into young citizens of whom we can all be justly proud .
paperback sean kingston publishing 2008 isbn13 9789650902667 isbn10 965090266x
abridged n isbn 13 9789650902667 number in series 1 number of pages 204 publisher sean kingston publishing release date 62135769600000