The Milltown Boys at Sixty - 9780367725143

Taylor & Francis

The Milltown Boys at SixtyThe Origins and Destinations of Young Men from a Poor Neighbourhood\nAuthor(s): Howard Williamson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367725143, 978-0367725143\nSynopsis\nThe Milltown Boys at Sixty is a story like no other, giving both an insider and an outsider view of the Milltown Boys, exploring the nature of an ethnographic relationship based on research about their experiences of the criminal justice system. \n\nA group classically labelled as delinquents, drug-takers and drop-outs, the Boys were also, in many different ways, fathers, friends and family men, differentially immersed in the labour market, in very different family relationships and now very differently connected to criminal activity. Williamson has written books capturing their experiences over the fifty years of his continued association with them: about their teenage years; and twenty years later, in middle-age. This bo.