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Author : Phillip Steven Gardiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Violent Behavior Among Inner City Youth of Color written by Phillip Steven Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Roger Breggin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The War Against Children of Color written by Peter Roger Breggin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of the best-selling Talking back to Prozac expose the government and psychiatric establishment's threat to children. From the authors of the best-selling Talking Back to Prozac comes the definitive work exposing how mental health agencies and the government are using invalid science for social control rather than addressing the decline of families, schools, and communities as well as escalating racism and poverty. In 1992, Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Ross inspired a national campaign against the proposed federal "Violence Initiative", which was aimed at identifying inner-city children with alleged defects that were said to make them more violent when they reach adulthood.
Author : Douglas J. Troop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Effects of Violence Exposure on Inner-city Youth and Moderating Factors Associated with Coping Practices written by Douglas J. Troop and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen Linder Datner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Resilience in Inner-city African American Youth Exposed to Community Violence written by Ellen Linder Datner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community violence is a pervasive problem in urban America. Those most vulnerable to violence are minority youth living in inner-city neighborhoods. Interpersonal violence has become the major cause of severe injury and death among this population. Poor, urban, African American youth have significantly higher rates of exposure to violence. This population also faces multiple social risks that are over-represented in their urban communities. Research shows that exposure to violence can have a negative impact on the physical and psychological well-being of youth. Outcomes include, but are not limited to, posttraumatic stress symptoms, aggression, and depression. Research has shown that a variety of risk factors can negatively impact youth development, however, some youth faced with adverse circumstances demonstrate positive adaptation. The mechanisms that protect youth from multiple risks are not fully understood. Research on depression and the factors that mediate adaptation in urban African American youth exposed to violence is sparse and contradictory. The goal of the current investigation was to assess levels of depressive symptoms in a sample of 318, 12 to 17 year old, inner-city African American youth exposed to community violence. In addition, risk and protective factors were analyzed to assess their contribution to levels of depression. Multiple regression analyses were performed to assess if severity of injury and/or history of traumatic life experiences further contributed to levels of depressive symptoms. Participants' history of traumatic life experiences was predictive of depression. Although rates of exposure to community violence compared with other studies, few symptoms of depression were endorsed. The majority of participants demonstrated positive adaptation in several areas of their life and endorsed fewer risk factors, however, a significant portion reported engaging in aggressive and criminal behavior and repeating a school year due to failure. Findings implicate the need for further research on distinguishing psychological sequelae in urban minority youth exposed to violence. Further investigation is necessary to clearly define the processes of risk and protection on outcomes. Support for continued prevention and intervention at multiple levels to further develop protective factors contributing to positive adjustment and to decrease accumulative risks was also demonstrated.
Author : Cindy D. Ness
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814758673
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Why Girls Fight written by Cindy D. Ness and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In low-income U.S. cities, street fights between teenage girls are common. These fights take place at school, on street corners, or in parks, when one girl provokes another to the point that she must either “step up” or be labeled a “punk.” Typically, when girls engage in violence that is not strictly self-defense, they are labeled “delinquent,” their actions taken as a sign of emotional pathology. However, in Why Girls Fight, Cindy D. Ness demonstrates that in poor urban areas this kind of street fighting is seen as a normal part of girlhood and a necessary way to earn respect among peers, as well as a way for girls to attain a sense of mastery and self-esteem in a social setting where legal opportunities for achievement are not otherwise easily available. Ness spent almost two years in west and northeast Philadelphia to get a sense of how teenage girls experience inflicting physical harm and the meanings they assign to it. While most existing work on girls’ violence deals exclusively with gangs, Ness sheds new light on the everyday street fighting of urban girls, arguing that different cultural standards associated with race and class influence the relationship that girls have to physical aggression.
Author : Shira Benhorin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Social Support and Aggressive Behavior Among African American Inner-city Youth written by Shira Benhorin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Leonard
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437920209
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Code of the Street and African-American Adolescent Violence written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ¿code of the street¿ theory presents an explanation for high rates of violence among African-Amer. (AA) adolescents. Observing life in a Phila. AA neighborhood, Anderson saw that economic disadvantage, separation from mainstream society, and racial discrim. encountered by some AA adolescents may lead to anti-social attitudes and to violent behavior. This report explores this thesis; researchers conducted repeated interviews with more than 800 AA adolescents (ages 10 to 15) and their primary caregivers. The researchers looked for developmental relationships between neighborhood and family characteristics, reported experiences with racial discrim., expressed street code values and self-reported violent behavior in young people. Illus.
Author : Howard Pinderhughes
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903262
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Race in the Hood written by Howard Pinderhughes and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin Delgado
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538119048
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Urban Youth Trauma written by Melvin Delgado and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trauma has unfortunately become an all-too familiar occurrence in the lives of children, with a majority of youth experiencing a traumatic event before the age of 18. With the rise of school shootings and recent March for Our Lives, this timely book will address intervention strategies for social workers and counselors to combat this negative phenomenon. Urban Youth Trauma focuses on urban violence and guns, while due attention is also paid to other forms of trauma in order to ground violence-related trauma within the constellation of multiple forms of trauma. Violence, and more specifically that related to guns, is very much associated with urban centers and youth of color. Divided into three parts, this volume traces the roots of urban youth trauma. Parts I and II provide context and foundation for the problem and intervention strategies. Part III takes the reader through a variety of intervention strategies directly related to the community’s assets. The strength of Urban Youth Trauma’s lies in its focus on the community itself as the key to survival, resilience, and change.
Author : Eileen M. Ahlin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000908194
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Violence in the Heights written by Eileen M. Ahlin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the media attention and research focus on big cities with large minority populations, people have grown accustomed to associating violence with these attributes. Violence in the Heights counters that narrative to provide a fresh perspective on inner-city violence with a close look at violence and associated social disorder in a cluster of neighborhoods in a mid-sized, predominantly White city. Eileen M. Ahlin studied 42 residents and their perceptions of and responses to violence to give voice to their experiences. Ahlin provides a historical overview of the neighborhoods and highlights a series of pivotal violent events, and discovers how they differentially impacted residents and their perceptions of safety. Residents reveal how institutional and demographic shifts reduced interpersonal connections and weakened the community's social fabric. A unique take on inner-city violence, Violence in the Heights also details why residents move to other communities when violence increases or, if they remain, adapt to changing conditions. This book will interest mainstream readers interested in learning about urban affairs and the human-interest story as it will track why inner-city residents stay in their neighborhoods or move to other communities when violence increases. This book will also serve as an academic text to outline the changes in violence and community disorder in a mid-sized city that is predominantly White, an understudied aspect of urban violence.
Author : Andreana Clay
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814723950
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back written by Andreana Clay and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From youth violence, to the impact of high stakes educational testing, to editorial hand wringing over the moral failures of hip-hop culture, young people of color are often portrayed as gang affiliated, “troubled,” and ultimately, dangerous. The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back examines how youth activism has emerged to address the persistent inequalities that affect urban youth of color. Andreana Clay provides a detailed account of the strategies that youth activists use to frame their social justice agendas and organize in their local communities. Based on two years of fieldwork with youth affiliated with two non-profit organizations in Oakland, California, The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back shows how youth integrate the history of social movement activism of the 1960s, popular culture strategies like hip-hop and spoken word, as well as their experiences in the contemporary urban landscape, to mobilize their peers. Ultimately, Clay’s comparison of the two youth organizations and their participants expands our understandings of youth culture, social movements, popular culture, and race and ethnic relations.
Author : David J. Harding
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226316661
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Living the Drama written by David J. Harding and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the middle class and the affluent, local ties seem to matter less and less these days, but in the inner city, your life can be irrevocably shaped by what block you live on. Living the Drama takes a close look at three neighborhoods in Boston to analyze the many complex ways that the context of community shapes the daily lives and long-term prospects of inner-city boys. David J. Harding studied sixty adolescent boys growing up in two very poor areas and one working-class area. In the first two, violence and neighborhood identification are inextricably linked as rivalries divide the city into spaces safe, neutral, or dangerous. Consequently, Harding discovers, social relationships are determined by residential space. Older boys who can navigate the dangers of the streets serve as role models, and friendships between peers grow out of mutual protection. The impact of community goes beyond the realm of same-sex bonding, Harding reveals, affecting the boys’ experiences in school and with the opposite sex. A unique glimpse into the world of urban adolescent boys, Living the Drama paints a detailed, insightful portrait of life in the inner city.
Author : Elijah Anderson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393070387
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City written by Elijah Anderson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-09-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.
Author : Deanna Lyn Wilkinson
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Guns, Violence, and Identity Among African American and Latino Youth written by Deanna Lyn Wilkinson and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilkinson (criminal justice, Temple U.) presents and analyzes the findings of a study of 125 violent adolescent males in two New York City neighborhoods and 306 violent or near violent events they experienced. She seeks to understand youth gun violence by examining the dynamic contextualism of urban neighborhoods; the influence of these social processes on socialization, social control, and behavior; and the role of guns in shaping norms and behaviors. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Laura M. Padilla-Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190260637
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood written by Laura M. Padilla-Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood highlights the third decade of life as a time in which individuals have diverse opportunities for positive development. There is mounting evidence that this time period, at least for a significant majority, is a unique developmental period in which positive development is fostered. Dr. Lene Arnett Jensen highlights the importance of this work in an engaging foreword, and chapters are written by leading scholars in diverse disciplines who address various aspects of flourishing. They discuss multiple aspects of positive development including how young people flourish in key areas of emerging adulthood (e.g., identity, love, work, worldviews), the various unique opportunities afforded to young people to flourish, how flourishing might look different around the world, and how flourishing can occur in the face of challenge. Most chapters are accompanied by first-person essays written by a range of emerging adults who exemplify the aspect of flourishing denoted in that chapter and make note of how choices and experiences have helped them transition to adulthood. Taken together, this innovative collection provides rich evidence and examples of how young people are flourishing as a group and as individuals in a variety of settings and circumstances. This unique resource will be useful to students, faculty, professionals, clinicians, and university personnel who work with young adults or who study development during emerging adulthood.
Author : Anna Aizer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth written by Anna Aizer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three quarters of American children have been exposed to neighborhood violence in their lifetimes. Most of the existing research has concluded that exposure to violence leads to restricted emotional development, aggressive behavior and poor school outcomes. However, this literature fails to account for the fact that children exposed to neighborhood violence are highly disadvantaged in other ways: they are more likely to be black, poor and have poorly educated parents. As such, it is not clear whether exposure to violence or the underlying measures of disadvantage are responsible for the poor child outcomes observed. Using individual survey data on urban youth and their families from Los Angeles, we find that the most violent neighborhoods are also characterized by the highest degree of disadvantage: greatest poverty, highest unemployment, least education. And while living in a violent neighborhood increases the probability of exposure to violence, within violent neighborhoods those personally exposed to street violence are significantly more disadvantaged and are more likely to associate with violent peers than their unexposed neighbors. Once we control for observed and unobserved family disadvantage, the impact of violence declines for some child outcomes, suggesting that underlying disadvantage explains some of the negative outcomes observed, but not all - it is still the case that associating with violent peers is negatively correlated with cognitive test scores. In addition, when we control for underlying differences across families, the relationship between violence and internalizing behavioral problems appears stronger.
Author : Joan McCord
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521587204
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Violence and Childhood in the Inner City written by Joan McCord and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors present various opinions about the causes of violence in American cities.
