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Youth Violence
Author : Kathryn Seifert
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826107400
Youth Violence
Author : United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Aggressiveness in adolescence
ISBN :
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American Youth Violence
Author : Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 019514063X
Book Description
On juvenile delinquency in America
The Paradox of Youth Violence
Author : J. William Spencer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile delinquency
ISBN : 9781588267887
Book Description
Is a teenage violent offender a dangerous predator-or a vulnerable innocent that we should rescue from a life of crime? J. William Spencer probes our ambivalent response to youth violence to show how deeply entwined issues of crime, age, race, and class distort our understanding of an important social problem.
Youth Aggression and Violence
Author : Thomas G. Moeller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2001-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135653615
Book Description
The rash of school shootings in the late 1990s has generated a tremendous amount of public concern about youth aggression and violence. But students, trainees, and professionals who work with children and adolescents have had no concise or systematic survey of our current knowledge about causes and effective approaches to intervention and prevention on which to draw. Youth Aggression and Violence has filled the void. Comprehensive and readable, it: * utilizes theory and research from the developmental psychology of "normal" children and adolescents, as well as material on "abnormal" forms of development, such as disruptive behavior disorders and juvenile delinquency; * situates youthful aggression and violence within the overall framework of children's moral development; * integrates quantitative research with carefully considered qualitative research and case studies; * discusses the genetic and biological underpinnings of youthful aggression, as well as family and social factors related to antisocial behavior; * emphasizes cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes involved in youth aggression and violence; * provides in-depth coverage of juvenile killers and school violence; * examines female aggression and violence in a variety of contexts; and * critically examines a number of questions frequently discussed in conjunction with youth violence, such as media violence, firearm accessibility, and the relationship between self-esteem and aggression.
Youth Violence
Author : Daniel J. Flannery
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780880488099
Book Description
This is a resource for dealing with both perpetrators and victims of violence and understanding the risk factors facing youth. Presenting an assessment of effects of exposure to violence and the continuity of aggression from early childhood to adulthood, it outlines an integration strategy for public policy towards prevention and treatment.
Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence
Author : James W. Messerschmidt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442213728
Book Description
In Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some of the mysteries of teenage violence. Written by one of the most respected scholars on the subject of gendered crime, this book provides a fascinating account of the connections among adolescent masculinities and femininities, bullying in schools, the body, heterosexuality, and violence and nonviolence. After an introduction that lays out key concepts, including a revised structured action theory, Messerschmidt shares six compelling life-histories of white working-class boys and girls who have all been victims of severe forms of bullying at school. The book is unique in its comparative approach between violent and nonviolent youth, between boys and girls as offenders and non-offenders, between assaultive and sexual violence, and among a variety of masculinities and femininities. It also addresses how heterosexuality is related to sex, gender, and certain forms of violence or non-violence. The penetrating life histories are partially drawn from Messerschmid’s previous books Nine Lives and Flesh and Blood, as well as several completely new life-history interviews. The book’s cutting-edge conceptualization of these life histories provides novel insight into the vexing question of youth violence.
Youth Violence in Latin America
Author : G. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 023010133X
Book Description
This volume provides a systematic overview of the contemporary Latin American youth violence phenomenon. The authors focus specifically on youth gangs, juvenile justice issues, and applied research concerns, providing a rounded and balanced exploration of this increasingly important topic.
Economics and Youth Violence
Author : Richard Rosenfeld
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814760775
Book Description
How do economic conditions such as poverty, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth impact youth violence? Economics and Youth Violence provides a much-needed new perspective on this crucial issue. Pinpointing the economic factors that are most important, the editors and contributors in this volume explore how different kinds of economic issues impact children, adolescents, and their families, schools, and communities.Offering new and important insights regarding the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and youth violence across a variety of times and places, chapters cover such issues as the effect of inflation on youth violence; new quantitative analysis of the connection between race, economic opportunity, and violence; and the cyclical nature of criminal backgrounds and economic disadvantage among families. Highlighting the complexities in the relationship between economic conditions, juvenile offenses, and the community and situational contexts in which their connections are forged, Economics and Youth Violence prompts important questions that will guide future research on the causes and prevention of youth violence. Contributors: Sarah Beth Barnett, Eric P. Baumer, Philippe Bourgois, Shawn Bushway, Philip J. Cook, Robert D. Crutchfield, Linda L. Dahlberg, Mark Edberg, Jeffrey Fagan, Xiangming Fang, Curtis S. Florence, Ekaterina Gorislavsky, Nancy G. Guerra, Karen Heimer, Janet L. Lauritsen, Jennifer L. Matjasko, James A. Mercy, Matthew Phillips, Richard Rosenfeld, Tim Wadsworth, Valerie West, Kevin T. Wolff
Youth in Crisis?
Author : Barry Goldson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1136833293
Book Description
Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Comprising a series of essays from leading national and international researchers, this book subjects such claims to rigorous critical scrutiny. It provides a challenging and authoritative account of complex questions pertaining to urban youth identities, crime and social order.
