Screen LibraryGlobal perspectives on youth gang behavior, violence, and weapons use /
"This book reconsiders the traditional understandings of youth violence in various forms, such as gang activities, criminal behavior, and weapons use, focusing on the psychosocial elements of violence among children, teenagers, and young adults"--Provided by publisher.
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IGI Global,
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| Publisher Address: | Hershey, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-4666-9938-0 |
| Summary: |
"This book reconsiders the traditional understandings of youth violence in various forms, such as gang activities, criminal behavior, and weapons use, focusing on the psychosocial elements of violence among children, teenagers, and young adults"--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | PDFs (425 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781466699397 |
| Access: | Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. |
| Index Number: | HQ799 |
| CLC: | C913.5 |
| Contents: | "Come on now, I want to see blood!": choreographed violence in gang initiation rites / Laura L. Hansen, Melissa E. Freitag -- Baby steps: urban violence, gangs, and school safety / Laura L. Hansen -- Gang violence in schools: safety measures and their effectiveness / Sarah E. Daly -- The reality and myth of weapons and violence in gang life / Timothy R. Lauger -- Forensic psychological perspectives on youth gang involvement in juvenile fire setting and bomb making weapons cases: forensic perspective youth gangs fire setting and weapons / Ronn Johnson -- Sticks and stones: when the words of hatred become weapons - a social psychological perspective / Robin Maria Valeri, Kevin Borgeson -- Youth gang exit: a Canadian perspective / Laura Dunbar -- Gender dynamics of violent acts among gang affiliated young adult Mexican American men / Kathryn M. Nowotny [and 4 others] -- In hand, out of hand: weapons and violence culture in large Latino gangs / Ami C. Carpenter -- "It's a vicious game": youth gangs, street violence, and organised crime in modern Britain / Dev Rup Maitra -- An exploratory study of prison gangs in contemporary society / Dev Rup Maitra -- Surviving the streets of Makeevka: a study of subculture of street children in Ukraine / Andrej Naterer -- Cape Town gangs: the other side of paradise / Don Pinnock -- From "little flowers of the motherland" into "carnivorous plants": the changing face of youth gang crime in contemporary China / Simon Harding -- Youth gangs and youth violence in Australia / Rob White -- The reorganisation of gangs in New Zealand / Jarrod Gilbert. |