In the post-Ryan Report (2009) on child abuse in the modern state, this book is the first study to document and analyse the issues in a frank exposé that challenges many of the myths about children and young people in Ireland.

Fred Powell is Professor of Social Policy and Dean of Social Science, National University of Ireland, Cork
Martin Geoghegan is a Lecturer at the School of Applied Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Cork
Margaret Scanlon is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21), National University of Ireland, Cork
Katharina Swirak is a Lecturer at the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork

Introduction
Part I: Youth narratives and youth Movements
1. The search for an Irish youth narrative: minor citizens or urban tribe?
2. Remoralising working class youth: women, religion and morality in nineteenth and early twentieth century Ireland
3. Constructing imperial man: uniformed youth movements in Britain and Ireland
4. Building national identity: youth movements and nationalism in twentieth century Ireland
Part II: Youth policy and practice
5. The co-production of a service: active citizenship, youth work and the State
6. Mapping the contemporary youth work landscape: models, objectives and key issues
7. Negotiating tensions and contradictions in youth crime prevention initiatives in Ireland
Part III: Disadvantaged young people, institutionalisation and human rights: The Ryan Report in perspective
8. Outcast youth and public policy: institutionalisation, social genetics and charity
9. Child abuse, youth policy and human rights: contextualising the Ryan Report
10. In search of truth and reconciliation: The Ryan Report from the survivors' perspective
References
Index