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Books on: youth violence

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Murder Is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America

Book by Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard R. Spivak; Jossey-Bass, 2004

Subjects:

Violence In Adolescence--Massachusetts--Boston--Prevention, Violence In Adolescence--United States, Violence In Adolescence--United States--Prevention, Violence In Children--Massachusetts--Boston--Prevention, Violence In Children--United States, Violence In Children--United States--Prevention, Youth And Violence--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Youth Programs Start Up Youth programs focused on violence prevention were among...friends to devalue violence as an acceptable behavior...In addition, the Youth Congress, an annual...Using pieces of the violence prevention curriculum...
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Guns, Violence, and Identity among African American and Latino Youth

Book by Deanna L. Wilkinson; LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2003

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African American Young Men--New York--New York--Social Conditions, Firearms--Social Aspects, Hispanic American Young Men--New York--New York--Social Conditions, Identity (Psychology) In Youth, Neighborhood--Social Aspects, Violence In Adolescence, Youth And Violence--New York--New York, Youth With Social Disabilities--New York--New York--Psychology

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...criminal justice agents, assist youth in making sense of their violent...might the rich data on the youths social worlds be used to develop...nature and circumstances of gun violence among youth, the media and some academics...University, wrote about the violence problem in America. He projected...
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Youth Aggression and Violence: A Psychological Approach

Book by Thomas G. Moeller; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001

Subjects:

Aggressiveness In Adolescence, Aggressiveness In Youth, Violence In Adolescence

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...Statistics, 1998). In summary, youth violence apparently began to increase in...Cook Laub, 1998). Race and Youth Violence. Victimization studies indicate...Sickmund, 1995). Time of Day and Youth Violence. The emphasis that many communities...
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The Context of Youth Violence: Resilience, Risk, and Protection

Book by Jack M. Richman, Mark W. Fraser; Praeger, 2001

Subjects:

Children And Violence, Resilience (Personality Trait) In Adolescence, Resilience (Personality Trait) In Children, Youth And Violence

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...Stith takes a public health perspective as she examines the issues of youth and community violence. She focuses on school violence; the interaction of race, poverty, and violence; and the impact of exposure to media violence, witnessing violence...
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American Youth Violence

Book by Franklin E. Zimring; Oxford University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Juvenile Delinquency--Government Policy--United States, Juvenile Justice, Administration Of--United States, Violent Crimes--Government Policy--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...relatively comprehensive examination of youth violence in the United States. The study...empirical examination of youth violence in the 1990s. Chapter 1 describes...topic in a balanced review of youth violence. Chapter 7 discusses standards...

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Journal Articles on: youth violence

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Children, Youth, and Gun Violence: Analysis and Recommendations

Journal article by Kathleen Reich, Patti L. Culross, Richard E. Behrman; The Future of Children, Vol. 12, 2002

Subjects:

Gun control--Planning, Gun violence--Demographic aspects, Violence in mass media--Social aspects, Violent deaths--Prevention, Youth violence--Prevention

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...issue, the increase in youth gun violence in the late 1980s coincided...high rates of lethal violence involving children in...conveys messages that violence is socially acceptable...firearm prevalence: Are youth disproportionately affected...among African-American youths--United States...
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Youth Violence and Positive Psychology: Research Potential through Integration

Journal article by Roger G. Tweed, Gira Bhatt, Stephen Dooley, Andrea Spindler, Kevin S. Douglas, Jodi L. Viljoen; Canadian Psychology, Vol. 52, 2011

Subjects:

Canada, Children & youth, Personality traits, Psychology, Violence

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Youth Violence and Positive Psychology: Research Potential...simultaneously reducing aversive outcomes. Youth violence is clearly an undesirable outcome...possibly practical strategies for reducing youth violence. Thus, we are focusing on potentially...
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Policing Guns and Youth Violence

Journal article by Jeffrey Fagan; The Future of Children, Vol. 12, 2002

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Gun control--Laws, regulations, etc., Gun violence--Case studies, Juvenile offenders--Case studies, Law enforcement agencies--Management, Ordnance--Crime, Youth violence--Case studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Policing guns and youth violence. by Jeffrey Fagan SUMMARY To...strategies and its specific focus on youth violence. (7) Evaluation data are limited...juveniles. Another program, the Youth Violence Handgun Initiative in Seattle...
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Adolescent Violence: The Protective Effects of Youth Assets

Journal article by Cheryl B. Aspy, Roy F. Oman, Sara K. Vesely, Kenneth Mcleroy, Sharon Rodine, Ladonna Marshall; Journal of Counseling and Development, Vol. 82, 2004

Subjects:

School violence, Youth violence

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...for violent behavior (Youth Violence, 2001) and is therefore...suggest that there are youth assets as well as demographic...have protected against youths self-reported physical...not surprising that youth with the assets of experiencing...between assets and youth violence and, if found, the...
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Youth Violence Trajectories and Proximal Characteristics of Intimate Partner Violence

Journal article by Todd I. Herrenkohl, Rick Kosterman, W. Alex Mason, J. David Hawkins; Violence and Victims, Vol. 22, 2007

Subjects:

Behavior, Children & youth, Domestic violence, Problems, Studies

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...distinguished among violent youth by taking into account...involvement in serious violence (robbery). Youths were given a score at...most serious act of violence they reported. For...were required before a youth was considered having engaged in violence on the indicator. These...

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Magazine Articles on: youth violence

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Confronting Violence in Entertainment: the Youth Vote and Tv-free Challenge

Magazine article by Jacques Brodeur; Green Teacher, Summer 2003

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Canada, Children & youth, Educational strategies, Media literacy, Television, Television broadcasting, Violence

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Confronting Violence in Entertainment: the Youth Vote and Tv-free...responsibility for regulating TV violence onto parents. SIDEBAR A 30-minute Youth Vote video is available...trainer and consultant in youth violence prevention, citizenship...
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Poverty and Youth Violence Exposure: Experiences in Rural Communities

Magazine article by Karen Townsend Carlson; Children & Schools, Vol. 28, April 2006

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Behavior, Children & youth, Family income, Poverty, Regression analysis, Risk factors, Rural areas, Sample size, Social classes, Statistical analysis, Students, Studies, Violence

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Poverty and Youth Violence Exposure: Experiences...Townsend Carlson Violence among youths has developed into...rural population of youths or to other, more diverse youth populations. In...about witnessing violence, respondents did...
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Availability of Guns Is Not the Cause of Youth Violence

Magazine article by John R. Jr. Lott; Insight on the News, Vol. 16, July 24, 2000

Subjects:

Firearms--Laws, regulations, etc., Violence in children--Causes of, Youth--Safety and security measures

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...Is Not the Cause of Youth Violence by John R. Jr. Lott It takes...recent outbreaks of school violence on the greater accessibility...resulted in less crime or youth violence, though plenty of research...results -- many good Virginia youths could be headed for jail...
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Curbing Youth Violence

Magazine article by Richard E. Riley; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, January 1994

Subjects:

School violence--Prevention, Schools--Safety and security measures

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Curbing Youth Violence. by Richard E. Riley...effectively problems of violence alone. They need the help and support of families, youth, businesses, law enforcement...be successful in ending violence, it is necessary to ensure...
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'Youth Violence Is Not about Race': We Are Failing Miserably to Provide Britain's Teenage Boys with Meaningful Occupations, Worthy Role Models or Hope for the Future. David Lammy, Minister for Skills, on the Crisis We Must Resolve

Magazine article by David Lammy; New Statesman, Vol. 137, August 18, 2008

Subjects:

Adolescent behavior--Evaluation, Teenagers--Demographic aspects, Teenagers--Evaluation, Youth--Demographic aspects, Youth--Evaluation

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Youth Violence Is Not about Race: We Are Failing Miserably...of male aggression with so much of the violence that society has witnessed this past year...we cannot ignore. Had this stream of violence been perpetrated almost exclusively by...

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Newspaper Articles on: youth violence

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Solution for Youth Violence; Minister Says: Community Involvement Needed to Give Young Offenders Alternatives to Gangs

Newspaper article; Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia), April 9, 2010

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Juvenile offenders, Teenagers, Violence, Youth

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Solution for Youth Violence; Minister Says: Community...to solving the areas youth violence. Baptist minister Mark Tronson...Rural Fire Service would give youth a sense of belonging. "These...a time it was sport, not violence that enabled youths to concentrate their energies...
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Youth Violence on Rise

Newspaper article; The Daily Mercury (Mackay, Australia), July 16, 2011

Subjects:

Teenagers--Alcohol use, Violence, Youth--Alcohol use

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Youth Violence on Rise. Byline: Kate Bastable kate.bastable@dailymercury.com.au MOST areas of youth crime have fallen in Mackay in recent years, but youth violence has risen due to a spike in binge drinking. About...
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Youth Violence Setback for Our Communities

Newspaper article; Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia), February 15, 2010

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Gangs, Teenagers, Violence, Youth

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Youth Violence Setback for Our Communities. THE recent actions of youths in the Tweed, and now Yamba...not suffered the extent of violence exhibited to our south, it...of control in Yamba, while youth gangs ran riot in Tweed on...
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Message Targets Youth Violence

Newspaper article; Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Australia), September 7, 2009

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Teenagers, Violence, Youth

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Message Targets Youth Violence. Byline: Nikkii Joyce COAST mother...and tell them her story. The youth violence workshop has been organised by Noosa...Thorpe says her message is simple. "(Violence) destroys lives," she said...
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Plan to Stem Street Violence; Alliance Would Provide Help, Venue for Youths

Newspaper article; Fraser Coast Chronicle (Hervey Bay, Australia), April 2, 2011

Subjects:

Employment services--Alliances and partnerships, Teenagers, Violence, Youth

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Plan to Stem Street Violence; Alliance Would Provide...problem of late night violence among youths. The PCYC would provide...community service and youth courses would provide...unpredictable gang of youths linked to a string of...assaults away from further violence. A self-confessed...said with the aid of a youth worker he was able to...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: youth violence

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France

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Europe began, accompanied by violence and the growth of radical...intended to end separatist violence there, but the year actually...Minister Sarkozy on urban violence linked to immigrants, and...accidental deaths of two black youths who were trying to hide from...legislation designed to reduce youth unemployment. Charges that...
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Rwanda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Since independence, ethnic violence has led to large-scale massacres...are nominated from women, youth, and other groups. Deputies...group toppled Kayibanda without violence and installed Maj. Gen. Juvenal...sharing agreement, Hutu violence broke out in the capital...
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Coetzee, J. M

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...imperialism, apartheid , and postapartheid violence. His books are also known for their technical...style, his fiction treats themes of human violence and loss, weakness and defeat, and isolation...writings are the memoirs Boyhood (1997) and Youth (2002) and several essay collections...
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Tolstoy, Leo, Count

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...which includes Boyhood (1854) and Youth (1857). In 1854 he took part in the...the doubts that had beset Tolstoy since youth, fed by his puritan temperament in conflict...and The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908). Tolstoy preached nonviolence...
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National Socialism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...own personality. By demagogic appeals to latent hatred and violence, through anti-Semitism , anti-Communist diatribes, and...in its recreation by the "Strength through Joy" movement. Youth, schools, and the press came under repressive control. The...

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