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Runaways : how the sixties counterculture shaped today's practices and policies
- Title
- Runaways : how the sixties counterculture shaped today's practices and policies / Karen M. Staller.
- Author
- Staller, Karen M.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 292 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-278) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword: a personal journey to some research questions -- Testing freedom: on the road to a runaway problem -- Constructing runaway youth -- Media myth spinning: from runaway adventurers to street survivors (1960-1978) -- Spinning myths from runaway lives: a hip beat version of dropping out -- Psychedelic social workers and alternative services -- Digger free: power in autonomy, independence in a free city network (1966-1968) -- The grassroots rise of alternative runaway services (1967-1974) -- Policy and "runaway" youth -- Shifting institutional structures: from moral guidance to autonomous denizens (1960-1978) -- Legitimization through legislation-the Runaway Youth Act: national attention to the runaway problem (1971-1974) -- Conclusions: where we've been, where we're going, what we've learned -- National extensions-problem, services, and policy (1974- ) -- Closing note: lessons learned and conveyed -- Appendix 1: Runaway Youth Act (Senate version, s. 2829: the Bayh/Cook bill) -- Appendix 2: Runaway Youth Act (House version, h. 9298) -- Appendix 3: the Runaway Youth Act of 1974 (p.l. 93-415).
- Call Number
- JFE 06-11512
- ISBN
- 0231124104 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231124112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005033489
- 9780231124102
- OCLC
- 62324921
- Author
- Staller, Karen M.
- Title
- Runaways : how the sixties counterculture shaped today's practices and policies / Karen M. Staller.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-278) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780231124102
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-11512