Youth, violence, and social disintegration / Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Sandra Legge, issue editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heitmeyer, Wilhelm.

Legge, Sandra.

Series:

New directions for youth development 1533-8916 ; no. 119.

New directions for youth development, 1533-8916 ; no. 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth and violence.

Juvenile delinquency.

Marginality, Social.

Youth--Mental health services.

Youth.

Adolescent psychology.

Youth development.

Youth in development.

Physical Description:

212 pages : charts ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass/Wiley, [2008]

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.

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.

Contents:

Youth and violence: phenomena and international data / Sandra Legge

Disintegration, recognition, and violence: a theoretical perspective / Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Reinmund Anhut

Violence in street culture: cross-cultural comparison of youth groups and criminal gangs / Steffen Zdun

The French republican model of integration: the theory of cohesion and the practice of exclusion / Marco Oberti

Fears of violence among English young people: disintegration theory and British social policy / Tom Cockburn

Violence in the Brazilian favelas and the role of the police / Clarissa Huguet, Ilona Szabo de Carvalho

Recognition denial, need for autonomy, and youth violence / Timothy Brezina

Social identity and violence among immigrant adolescents / Gustavo S. Mesch, Hagit Turjeman, Gideon Fishman

Disintegration and violence among migrants in Germany: Turkish and Russian youths versus German youths / Dirk Baier, Christian Pfeiffer

Right-wing extremist violence among adolescents in Germany / Peter Sitzer, Wilhelm Heitmeyer

The role of social work in the context of social disintegration and violence / Kurt Moller.

Notes:

"Fall 2008".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470424094

0470424095

OCLC:

269631930