Youth Violence : Sources and solutions in South Africa / Cathy Ward, Andrew Dawes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Cathy, editor.

Dawes, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : UCT Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Youth violence: sources and solutions in South Africa thoroughly and carefully reviews the evidence for risk and protective factors that influence the likelihood of young people acting aggressively. Layers of understanding are built by viewing the problem from a multitude of perspectives, including the current situation in which South African youth are growing up, perspectives from developmental psychology, the influences of race, class and gender, and of the media. The book examines the evidence for effective interventions in the contexts of young people's lives - their homes, their schools, their leisure activities, with gangs, in the criminal justice system, in cities and neighbourhoods, and with sexual offenders. In doing so, thoughtful suggestions are made for keeping an evidence-based perspective while (necessarily) adapting interventions for developing world contexts, such as South Africa.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101856

ISBN:

9781920541651

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access