Youth, violence, and social disintegration /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Heitmeyer, Wilhelm, Legge, Sandra
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	San Francisco : Jossey-Bass/Wiley, [2008]
Series:	New directions for youth development ; no. 119.
Subjects:	Youth and violence. Juvenile delinquency. Marginality, Social. Youth > Mental health services. Adolescent psychology. Youth development. Youth in development.

Table of 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.