Violent and Non-Violent Disputes Involving Gang Youth (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC; LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: September 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781593320980
Subjects: True Crime / Espionage; Violent crimes; Social Science; Gangs; Violence in adolescence; Sociology; Violence in Society; General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Criminology; Chicago Metropolitan Area; Illinois
First sentence: Three different types of questions can be asked about violence (and other types of deviant activities), with answers to each making important but distinct contributions to our overall understanding of the phenomenon (Reiss and Roth 1993; Sampson and Lauritsen 1994).