Youth, violence, and social disintegration
By: Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Sandra Legge, issue editors.
Contributors: Heitmeyer, Wilhelm.; Legge, Sandra.
Series: New directions for youth development -- no. 119; Jossey-Bass psychology series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Wiley
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780470424094
Subjects: Youth and violence.; Juvenile delinquency.; Marginality, Social.; Youth -- Mental health services.; Adolescent psychology.; Youth development.; Youth in development.
Description: Examines the causes of violent behavior among young people in an international context.
Notes: "Fall 2008".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Youth and violence: phenomena and international data / Sandra Legge; title: Disintegration, recognition, and violence: a theoretical perspective / Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Reinmund Anhut; title: Violence in street culture: cross-cultural comparison of youth groups and criminal gangs / Steffen Zdun; title: The French republican model of integration: the theory of cohesion and the practice of exclusion / Marco Oberti; title: Fears of violence among English young people: disintegration theory and British social policy / Tom Cockburn; title: Violence in the Brazilian favelas and the role of the police / Clarissa Huguet, Ilona Szabʹoʹ Szab́ó de Carvalho; title: Recognition denial, need for autonomy, and youth violence / Timothy Brezina; title: Social identity and violence among immigrant adolescents / Gustavo S. Mesch, Hagit Turjeman, Gideon Fishman; title: Disintegration and violence among migrants in Germany: Turkish and Russian youths versus German youths / Dirk Baier, Christian Pfeiffer; title: Right-wing extremist violence among adolescents in Germany / Peter Sitzer, Wilhelm Heitmeyer; title: The role of social work in the context of social disintegration and violence / Kurt Moller.