Youth Violence, Resilience, and Rehabilitation
Youth Violence, Resilience, and Rehabilitation

Author: Joan Serra Hoffman

Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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The result of a six-year, participatory research project conducted with 20 young people who had past involvement in assaultive violence, this work investigates the factors that contribute to or detract from stopping violence and the implications of a traumatic event for revisiting past behavior. It investigates the experiences of the young people from Boston and Los Angeles through an inductive examination of the youth's own words. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders
Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders

Author: Rolf Loeber

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999-06-23

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780761920403

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Detailed and comprehensive, Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders presents authoritative discussions by a select group of leading scholars on issues surrounding serious and violent juvenile offenders. This population is responsible for a disproportionate percentage of all crime and poses the greatest challenge to juvenile justice policymakers. Under the skillful editorship of Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington, this unique volume integrates knowledge about risk and protective factors with information about intervention and prevention programs so that conclusions from each area can inform the other. Current literature on these two areas does not, for the most part, apply directly to serious and violent juvenile offenders. This volume contends that serious and violent juvenile offenders tend to start displaying behavior problems and delinquency early in life, warranting early intervention. It is the contributors' thesis that prevention is never too early. They also maintain, however, that interventions for serious and violent juvenile offenders can never be too late in that effective interventions exist for known serious and violent juvenile offenders. Augmented by charts, tables, graphs, figures, and an extensive bibliography, Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders is an excellent reference work and a must read for policy and lawmakers, judges, attorneys, law enforcement personnel, education administrators, researchers, academics, social workers, sociologists, as well as graduate students and interns.

While We Were Sleeping
While We Were Sleeping

Author: David Hemenway

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-05-04

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780520943407

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Public health has made our lives safer—but it often works behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, "while we are sleeping." This book powerfully illuminates how public health works with more than sixty success stories drawn from the area of injury and violence prevention. It also profiles dozens of individuals who have made important contributions to safety and health in a range of social arenas. Highlighting examples from the United States as well as from other countries, While We Were Sleeping will inform a wide audience of readers about what public health actually does and at the same time inspire a new generation to make the world a safer place.

Youth Violence
Youth Violence

Author: Michael H. Tonry

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780226808468

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Youth violence has long been a contentious and perplexing issue in current debates on crime policy, not the least because of the sharp increase in violence among young minority males from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Featuring articles by leading American and European scholars from many fields, this book overviews policy issues and research developments concerning crime and violence among the young.