Responding to Youth Violence Through Youth Work

Responding to Youth Violence Through Youth Work

Author: Seal, Mike

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2016-09-14

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1447323106

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The problem of how to respond to violence involving young people continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers across Europe and the world. In this book, Mike Seal and Pete Harris draw on the findings of a two-year European research project--in which peer researchers spoke to young people--to examine different responses to youth violence. Developing a unique analytical framework that combines elements of critical theory, psychosocial criminology, and applied existential philosophy, the authors present a new model for responding meaningfully and effectively to these issues at personal/psychological, community/cultural, and structural/symbolic levels. Through a series of case studies, Seal and Harris show how these approaches have been applied in different practice settings. Essential reading in the fields of youth and community work, social work, criminology, youth justice, and youth studies, this book will stimulate critical new thinking and encourage reflective and theoretically informed responses to addressing youth violence in practice.


Youth Violence

Youth Violence

Author: Kathryn Seifert

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0826107400

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Working with Youth Violence

Working with Youth Violence

Author: Tamara Blakemore

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1003810373

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Relevant for experienced and emerging social work and human service practitioners alike, this book explores the uniquely challenging, yet seemingly ubiquitous issue of youth violence. It provides an authentic and accessible discussion of the theories and evidence that inform practice with youth violence alongside the voices of practitioners and the young people they work with. These voices are drawn from work with the Name.Narrate.Navigate (NNN) program for youth violence. NNN provides a trauma-informed, culturally safe preventive-intervention for young people who use and experience violence, and specialist training for the workers who support them. The program embraces creative methods as a bridge between contemporary evidence on trauma and violence and Aboriginal healing practice. The dual focus of the program is informed and interconnected by action research involving Aboriginal Elders and community members, practitioners, and key service stakeholders, including young people with a lived experience of violence. This book is ideal for use in professional cross-disciplinary programs, such as criminology, sociology, social work, and psychology, across post-secondary, vocational, and university sectors.


Youth Violence

Youth Violence

Author: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13:

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Prevention and Youth Crime

Prevention and Youth Crime

Author: Blyth, Maggie

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1847422632

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The 2008 UK government Youth Crime Action Plan emphasises early intervention in work with young people who offend or considered to be 'at risk' of offending. This approach includes targeted work with families and a reduction in the numbers of young people entering the justice system. This report takes a critical look at early intervention policies.


Youth Violence

Youth Violence

Author: Daniel J. Flannery

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780880488099

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This is a resource for dealing with both perpetrators and victims of violence and understanding the risk factors facing youth. Presenting an assessment of effects of exposure to violence and the continuity of aggression from early childhood to adulthood, it outlines an integration strategy for public policy towards prevention and treatment.


Policing Gangs and Youth Violence

Policing Gangs and Youth Violence

Author: Scott H. Decker

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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This title is part of The Wadsworth Professionalism in Policing Series, edited by Samuel Walker. This reader is a descriptive presentation of current practices within policing and juvenile justice (focusing on gangs) that utilize the community-policing model. By looking at specific strategies and their efficacy, the authors attempt to combat a major perceived problem with community policing; that the methodology of community policing can be subjective and nebulous, using ill-defined and misinterpreted practices. This book shows what is working for agencies across the country and how these "best practices" can be employed.


The Review of the Roots of Youth Violence

The Review of the Roots of Youth Violence

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781424979912

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This is a summary of a study of the roots of violence among young people and what might be done to address them to make Ontario safer in the long term. The summary touches on poverty, racism, community design, the education system, family issues, health, lack of a youth voice, lack of economic opportunity, and issues in the justice system as roots of violence among young people in Ontario. It also presents recommendations to address those problems.--Includes text from document.


Social Work in the 21st Century

Social Work in the 21st Century

Author: Morley D. Glicken

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2010-12-08

Total Pages: 697

ISBN-13: 1412975786

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Social Work in the 21st Century is a T1 for courses called Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare. It is an overview of the Welfare system in America and it gives special attention to the role of a social worker and how they have historically interacted with the system. This book is written as an alternative to the market leader, Zastrow, which is highly dense introduction to the social welfare system and social work. The course is open to all majors and is often the course that draws students into the major of social work. This book is intended to get students excited about the profession and thinking critically about what social workers do and how they operate within the larger system. Unique features of the text include pedagogical features such as "You be the Social Worker," "Questions to Determine your Frame of Reference," "Info tables," and detailed cases with discussion questions. All these features reviewed very well in the text, and all are going to be retained, updated and expanded in the new edition. In addition, the author will add interviews with social workers in various roles and contexts. Reviewers made some very valuable recommendations for the new edition. They include the following: Incorporating a greater focus on the Person in Environment perspective (unique to social work) and a greater focus on macro issues and policy. They also recommended adding more visually appealing elements such as more photos throughout the text. A new feature will be invited essays by social workers in various roles from across the country. This will give students a first hand experience of the variety of roles social workers perform. In addition, the author will update the book to reflect recent current events, such as the historic election, the recent catastrophes and government response (since the book's publication) and will incorporate a greater emphasis on international issues. Finally, the author will give great


Ending gang and youth violence

Ending gang and youth violence

Author: Great Britain: Home Office

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780101821124

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This cross-government report drawn up in close consultation with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and other Cabinet Ministers is seen as an important first analysis of the problem of gangs and the interventions that work. It provides a platform for the intensive support that will need to be provided to the areas most affected. The riots that occurred in London and other parts of England during August 2011, had a gang aspect. In London, one in five of those arrested in connection with the riots were known gang members. Gangs and serious youth violence are seen as the product of high levels of social breakdown and disadvantage. Gangs themselves, create a culture of violence and criminality. The report makes clear that intensive police action is needed to stop the violence and bring perpetrators to justice, but this should be done alongside robust offers of support and an intensive prevention strategy. The proposals are wide-ranging but focus on five specific areas: (i) providing support - to local areas to tackle gang or youth violence; (ii) prevention - stopping young people becoming involved in serious violence; (iii) pathways out - offering exit strategies away from violence and gang culture; (iv) punishment - preventing the violence of those refusing to exit violent lifestyles; (v) partnership working - to join up the way local areas respond to gangs and youth violence.