Williams Teenage Suicide Notes

An Ethnography of Self-Harm
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54250-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: The Cosmopolitan Life

In Teenage Suicide Notes, sociologist Terry Williams pores over the writings of a diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations behind teenage suicide and to humanize those at risk of taking their own lives. Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Terry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Profiled Teens
Prologue
Introduction
1. Little Girl Lost: Kyra
2. The Fighter: Enoch
3. Overload: Candy
4. The Last Stand: David
5. Homo: Tucker
6. Escaping Death: Gita
7. Shock Jock: Boots
8. Cutter: Jill
9. On the Road: Cody
10. Born-Again Virgin: Gabriella
Afterword
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Ipe and Brownson
Appendix 2: Enoch and His Brother
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Terry Williams is a professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. He specializes in teenage life and culture, drug abuse, crews and gangs, and violence and urban social policy. He is the author of The Con Men: Hustling in New York City (Columbia, 2015); Harlem Supers: The Social Life of a Community in Transition (2015); Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line (1993); and The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring (1989); and is the founder and director of the Harlem Writers Crew Project, a multimedia approach to urban education for center city and rural youths.