Youth, violence, and social disintegration /
How and why do people become perpetrators and victims of violence? In youth violence, what roles are played by public spaces, the institutional context, socialization processes, religion and other kinds of ideologies, and, more generally, the experience of social disintegration? Are there global com...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Jossey-Bass/Wiley,
[2008]
San Francisco : c2008 San Francisco : [2008] |
| Series: | New directions for youth development,
no. 119 New directions for youth development ; no. 119 New directions for youth development no. 119 New directions for youth development no. 119 |
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| Summary: | How and why do people become perpetrators and victims of violence? In youth violence, what roles are played by public spaces, the institutional context, socialization processes, religion and other kinds of ideologies, and, more generally, the experience of social disintegration? Are there global commonalities with regard to programs for preventing and intervening in youth crime? A look at the global trends of youth crime and violence and the development of social conditions for young people worldwide shows the importance of finding answers to these questions. This volume of New Directions for Youth Development examines violent behavior and addresses these questions in an international context "How and why do people become perpetrators and victims of violence? In youth violence, what roles are played by public spaces, the institutional context, socialization processes, religion and other kinds of ideologies, and, more generally, the experience of social disintegration? Are there global commonalities with regard to programs for preventing and intervening in youth crime? A look at the global trends of youth crime and violence and the development of social conditions for young people worldwide shows the importance of finding answers to these questions. This volume of New Directions for Youth Development examines violent behavior and addresses these questions in an international context."--Jacket The theoretical framework for all of the articles is the theory of disintegration. The article authors examine whether the disintegration approach, which suggests that social disintegration encourages the development of socially harmful attitudes and behavior, offers explanations for the forms of youth violence under examination and for the experience of violence. The analyses are deliberately very different from each other and show that there are many forms of youth violence that cannot be explained in terms of a single cause. The selection of topics reflects a comprehensive and committed approach to international social conditions and problems, as well as national differences, including minority and majority perspectives, which evade simplistic comparison. The volume concludes with a discussion of similarities and differences in youth violence prevention and intervention programs, with a view to establishing a basis for international collaborations |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC "Fall 2008" |
| Physical Description: | 212 p. : charts ; 23 cm 212 pages : charts ; 23 cm Also available on the Internet Also issued online |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0470424095 (pbk.) 0470424095 9780470424094 (pbk.) 9780470424094 |
| ISSN: | 1533-8916 ; |