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Author : J. William Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1588269434
Author : J. William Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile delinquency
ISBN : 1588267881
Is a teenage violent offender a dangerous predator-or a vulnerable innocent that we should rescue from a life of crime? J. William Spencer probes our ambivalent response to youth violence to show how deeply entwined issues of crime, age, race, and class distort our understanding of an important social problem.
Author : Michael Adorjan,Wing Hong Chui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135079963
A society’s response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and post-colonial periods, and in doing so, underscores the history of Hong Kong itself and its present-day circumstances. Exploring how officials have responded to youth crime in Hong Kong over time, this book tracks the emergence of a penal elitist mode of governance, highlighting concerns not only about young people’s behavior but the need for officials to establish state authority and promote citizen identification. In turn, it reveals an alternative to the ‘usual story’ about youth crime found in many western regions and provides an opportunity to begin to develop a comparative criminology. The book examines the emergence of the ‘disciplinary welfare’ tariff during the 1970s, debates and policy changes related to the minimum age of criminal responsibility and youth sex crimes, and inaction regarding the introduction of restorative justice initiatives in the post-colonial era. It also addresses the power of ‘Post-80s’ youth to protest and challenge government policies, which directly combat contemporary fears regarding the ‘mainlandization’ of Hong Kong. Drawing on archival sources, official reports and interviews with key stakeholders in the juvenile justice system, Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong will appeal to students and scholars interested in Chinese society, criminology, social work, sociology and youth studies.
Author : Margaret Gatz,Michael A. Messner,Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780791488898
Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists from diverse fields examine how sport can address social ills and act as a resource in the lives of disadvantaged youth versus how sport itself harbors and fosters social problems and is dominated by unequal access, the obsession to win, and commercialization. This book places sport at the crossroads of inquiry and practice regarding critical issues of our time, including youth development; violence; racial, gender, and class inequities; and inter-group relations.
Author : Seal, Mike,Harris, Pete
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447323105
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.
Author : Margaret Gatz,Michael A. Messner,Sandra Ball-Rokeach
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0791453235
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.
Author : Glenn W. Muschert,Johanna Sumiala
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780529196
This book analyses the global (media) cultural phenomenon of school shootings in the context of mediatization in contemporary social and cultural life. It explores shootings from different, interconnected perspectives with a focus on the theoretical aspect, the practices of mediatization and an examination of the audiences, victims and witnesses.
Author : Margaret Haerens
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737767629
This book explores trends in juvenile crime in countries worldwide. Readers will explore the causes and risk factors associated with youth crime. This book also addresses the differences among nations' juvenile justice systems, and the varying ways reform is handled around the world. Primary sources and essays from international sources offer a truly panoramic view. Are British rates of girl game crime exploding? Do Palestinian girls turn to crime to escape family trouble? Should Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan end their juvenile death penalty? Hard-hitting questions like these are answered in this must-have volume.
Author : Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195140637
On juvenile delinquency in America
Author : Frank P. Williams,Marilyn D. McShane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313082047
Juvenile crime and violence has always piqued the public's interest. Indeed, each generation of Americans tends to define the youth crime problem as more serious than any previous generation. Even though juvenile homicides have been decreasing since the mid-1990s, the media is still quick to provide dramatic examples of juvenile monsters who are terrorizing their communities. Shootings at school, gang banging and trafficking drugs, school bullies, and charging juveniles as adults are subjects that have recently received wide media coverage. This three volume set on the nature, incidence, consequences, and treatment of youth crime and violence will help readers understand the true nature of youth crime and violence from a variety of perspectives. Each volume covers a different area and experts write on topics ranging from sex offending to fire starting, from gangs to guns, from juvenile probation to charging youths as adults, from mandatory mental health treatment to police in school settings, and more. What drives a teenager to steal? To kill? Why does youth crime and violence occur? Why are youths such vulnerable targets? What can be done to stop youth offenders, and what can be done to help youthful victims? How does the criminal justice system respond? What do communities do to punish and protect youths? What can schools do to intervene? All these questions and more are answered in this set on this timely and important topic. Our youth are our most precious commodity, and protecting vulnerable children as well as helping offenders is of paramount importance for steering them toward safe and productive lives. These volumes help readers better understand the causes and consequences of youth violence and crime and consider ways to address the problems.
Author : Margaret Gatz,Michael A. Messner,Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : PURD:32754070073444
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.
Author : Richard Rosenfeld,Mark Edberg,Xiangming Fang,Curtis S. Florence
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814760598
Highlighting the complexities in the relationship between economic conditions, juvenile offenses, and the community and situational contexts in which their connections are forged, Economics and Youth Violence prompts important questions that will guide future research on the causes and prevention of youth violence. Contributors: Sarah Beth Barnett, Eric P. Baumer, Philippe Bourgois, Shawn Bushway, Philip J. Cook, Robert D. Crutchfield, Linda L. Dahlberg, Mark Edberg, Jeffrey Fagan, Xiangming Fang, Curtis S. Florence, Ekaterina Gorislavsky, Nancy G. Guerra, Karen Heimer, Janet L. Lauritsen, Jennifer L. Matjasko, James A. Mercy, Matthew Phillips, Richard Rosenfeld, Tim Wadsworth, Valerie West, Kevin T. Wolff Richard Rosenfeld is Curators Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Mark Edberg is Associate Professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
Author : Jaclyn Schildkraut,Glenn W. Muschert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216063094
This powerful retrospective analysis of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting aftermath considers society's response to the attack, long-term implications of the shooting, and the ways in which research and related policy must continue to move forward. An indispensable resource for anyone interested in learning about the long-term impact of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, Columbine, 20 Years Later and Beyond provides a comprehensive look at how the event unfolded, what has changed since the attack, and how this information can be used to prevent future mass shootings. Authors Jaclyn Schildkraut and Glenn Muschert, both experts on mass shootings, share their broad understanding of this tragedy and its aftermath. Columbine became the measuring stick against which all other mass shootings would be compared, and this book details with great sensitivity the ensuing changes to school security, law enforcement's response to active shooter situations, threat assessment practices, legislative efforts, and media coverage of unfolding situations. With delicacy and tact, Schildkraut and Muschert help to answer the painful question raised by a stone on the wall of the Columbine Memorial: "What have we learned?".
Author : William McDonald
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848554382
Examines the nexus between immigration and crime from all of the angles. This work addresses not just the evidence regarding the criminality of immigrants but also the research on the victimization of immigrants; human trafficking; domestic violence; the police handling of human trafficking; and, the exportation to crime problems via deportation.
Author : Charles R Acland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429971464
In this book, Charles R. Acland examines the culture that has produced both our heightened state of awareness and the bedrock reality of youth violence in the United States. Beginning with a critique of statistical evidence of youth violence, Acland compares and juxtaposes a variety of popular cultural representations of what has come to be a perceived crisis of American youth. After examining the dominant paradigms for scholarly research into youth deviance, Acland explores the ideas circulating in the popular media about a sensational crime known as the "preppy murder" and the confession to that crime. Arguing that the meaning of crime is never inherent in the event itself, he evaluates other sites of representation, including newspaper photographs (with a comparison to the Central Park "wilding"), daytime television talk shows (Oprah, Geraldo, and Donahue), and Hollywood youth films (in particular River's Edge). Through a cultural studies analysis of historical context, Acland blurs the center of our preconceptions and exposes the complex social forces at work upon this issue in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Acland asks of the social critic, "How do we know that we are measuring what we say we are measuring, and how do we know what the numbers are saying? Arguments must be made to interpret findings, which suggests that conclusions are provisional and, to various degrees, sites of contestation." He launches into this gratifying book to show that beyond the problematic category of "actual" crime, the United States has seen the construction of a new "spectacle of wasted youth" that will have specific consequences for the daily lives of the next generation.