ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the kinds of services needed to promote the inclusion of young people in their local communities. In particular practice is having to respond to the public’s (and government’s) concern over anti-social behaviour and ‘community safety’. The chapter considers the efforts in localities to rein in anti-social behaviour, reduce crime, and from this platform, develop positive services for young people. This emphasis on anti-social behaviour presents practitioners with a number of dilemmas between using a number of punitive, name-and-shame strategies and the struggle to construct the youth support systems that young people actually require.
