Author: Margaret Gatz
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791453230
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.
The Paradox of Youth Violence
Author: J. William Spencer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781588267887
Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781588267887
Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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.
Paradoxes of Youth and Sport
Author: Margaret Gatz
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791453230
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791453230
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.
Paradoxes of Youth and Sport
Author: Margaret Gatz
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488896
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists from diverse fields examine how sport can address social ills and act as a resource in the lives of disadvantaged youth versus how sport itself harbors and fosters social problems and is dominated by unequal access, the obsession to win, and commercialization. This book places sport at the crossroads of inquiry and practice regarding critical issues of our time, including youth development; violence; racial, gender, and class inequities; and inter-group relations.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488896
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists from diverse fields examine how sport can address social ills and act as a resource in the lives of disadvantaged youth versus how sport itself harbors and fosters social problems and is dominated by unequal access, the obsession to win, and commercialization. This book places sport at the crossroads of inquiry and practice regarding critical issues of our time, including youth development; violence; racial, gender, and class inequities; and inter-group relations.
The Gang Paradox
Author: Robert J. Durán
Publisher: Studies in Transgression
ISBN: 9780231181075
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Robert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the U.S.-Mexico border. He finds significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe.
Publisher: Studies in Transgression
ISBN: 9780231181075
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Robert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the U.S.-Mexico border. He finds significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe.
The Paradox of Youth Violence
Author: J. William Spencer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781588269430
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781588269430
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
American Youth Violence
Author: Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019514063X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
On juvenile delinquency in America
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019514063X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
On juvenile delinquency in America
School Shootings
Author: Nils Böckler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146145526X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
School shootings are a topic of research in a variety of different disciplines—from psychology, to sociology to criminology, pedagogy, and public health—each with their own set of theories. Many of these theories are logically interconnected, while some differ widely and seem incompatible with each other, leading to divergent results about potential means of prevention. In this innovative work, leading researchers on the topic of school shootings introduce their findings and theoretical concepts in one combined systematic volume. The contributions to this work highlight both the complementary findings from different fields, as well as cases where they diverge or contradict each other. The work is divided into four main sections: an overview of current theoretical approaches and empirical models; application of these theories to international cases, including Columbine (USA), Emsdetten (Germany), and Tuusula (Finland); a critique of the influence of the media, both in the portrayals of past events and its effect on future events; and finally an overview of existing models for prevention and intervention, and measures of their success. The result is a comprehensive source for current research on school shootings, and will provide a direction for future research.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146145526X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
School shootings are a topic of research in a variety of different disciplines—from psychology, to sociology to criminology, pedagogy, and public health—each with their own set of theories. Many of these theories are logically interconnected, while some differ widely and seem incompatible with each other, leading to divergent results about potential means of prevention. In this innovative work, leading researchers on the topic of school shootings introduce their findings and theoretical concepts in one combined systematic volume. The contributions to this work highlight both the complementary findings from different fields, as well as cases where they diverge or contradict each other. The work is divided into four main sections: an overview of current theoretical approaches and empirical models; application of these theories to international cases, including Columbine (USA), Emsdetten (Germany), and Tuusula (Finland); a critique of the influence of the media, both in the portrayals of past events and its effect on future events; and finally an overview of existing models for prevention and intervention, and measures of their success. The result is a comprehensive source for current research on school shootings, and will provide a direction for future research.
Linking Disorders to Delinquency
Author: Christopher A. Mallett
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN: 9781935049586
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN: 9781935049586
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.
Youth Violence
Author: Finn-Aage Esbensen
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439900736
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The first comprehensive overview to examine how sex and race/ethnicity impact the interrelationships among youth violence, violent victimization, and gang membership.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439900736
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The first comprehensive overview to examine how sex and race/ethnicity impact the interrelationships among youth violence, violent victimization, and gang membership.
Youth Violence and Delinquency
Author: Frank P. Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313082049
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Juvenile crime and violence has always piqued the public's interest. Indeed, each generation of Americans tends to define the youth crime problem as more serious than any previous generation. Even though juvenile homicides have been decreasing since the mid-1990s, the media is still quick to provide dramatic examples of juvenile monsters who are terrorizing their communities. Shootings at school, gang banging and trafficking drugs, school bullies, and charging juveniles as adults are subjects that have recently received wide media coverage. This three volume set on the nature, incidence, consequences, and treatment of youth crime and violence will help readers understand the true nature of youth crime and violence from a variety of perspectives. Each volume covers a different area and experts write on topics ranging from sex offending to fire starting, from gangs to guns, from juvenile probation to charging youths as adults, from mandatory mental health treatment to police in school settings, and more. What drives a teenager to steal? To kill? Why does youth crime and violence occur? Why are youths such vulnerable targets? What can be done to stop youth offenders, and what can be done to help youthful victims? How does the criminal justice system respond? What do communities do to punish and protect youths? What can schools do to intervene? All these questions and more are answered in this set on this timely and important topic. Our youth are our most precious commodity, and protecting vulnerable children as well as helping offenders is of paramount importance for steering them toward safe and productive lives. These volumes help readers better understand the causes and consequences of youth violence and crime and consider ways to address the problems.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313082049
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Juvenile crime and violence has always piqued the public's interest. Indeed, each generation of Americans tends to define the youth crime problem as more serious than any previous generation. Even though juvenile homicides have been decreasing since the mid-1990s, the media is still quick to provide dramatic examples of juvenile monsters who are terrorizing their communities. Shootings at school, gang banging and trafficking drugs, school bullies, and charging juveniles as adults are subjects that have recently received wide media coverage. This three volume set on the nature, incidence, consequences, and treatment of youth crime and violence will help readers understand the true nature of youth crime and violence from a variety of perspectives. Each volume covers a different area and experts write on topics ranging from sex offending to fire starting, from gangs to guns, from juvenile probation to charging youths as adults, from mandatory mental health treatment to police in school settings, and more. What drives a teenager to steal? To kill? Why does youth crime and violence occur? Why are youths such vulnerable targets? What can be done to stop youth offenders, and what can be done to help youthful victims? How does the criminal justice system respond? What do communities do to punish and protect youths? What can schools do to intervene? All these questions and more are answered in this set on this timely and important topic. Our youth are our most precious commodity, and protecting vulnerable children as well as helping offenders is of paramount importance for steering them toward safe and productive lives. These volumes help readers better understand the causes and consequences of youth violence and crime and consider ways to address the problems.