Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'.
1. Introduction 2. The State of Contemporary Youth: Conceptual Underpinnings of Dominant Youth Discourses 3. Deconstruction and the Question of Identity 4. Reasonable Unreason: The Limits of Youth in the Teen Brain 5. Presumed Innocent: The Paradox of 'Coming of Age' 6. Normal Abnormality: Coming to Terms 7. Conclusion Notes References
