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Renegade kids, suburban outlaws

Topics covered include exploring boundary between deviance and criminality in the lives of young people who are deeply involved in the youth culture; show how youth culture is not a set of categories so much as it is a dynamic and creative response to the confusions of growing up in modern society.

Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 248 pages

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