Title: Youth, violence, and social disintegration /
Authors: Heitmeyer, Wilhelm.; Legge, Sandra.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Wiley,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Youth and violence.; Juvenile delinquency.; Marginality, Social.; Youth Mental health services; Adolescent psychology.; Youth development.; Youth in development.
Abstract: "How and why do people become perpetrators and victims of violence? In youth violence, what roles are played by public spaces, the institutional context, socialization processes, religion and other kinds of ideologies, and, more generally, the experience of social disintegration? Are there global commonalities with regard to programs for preventing and intervening in youth crime? A look at the global trends of youth crime and violence and the development of social conditions for young people worldwide shows the importance of finding answers to these questions. This volume of New Directions for Youth Development examines violent behavior and addresses these questions in an international context."--Jacket.
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.