The Context of Youth Violence
Subtitle: Resilience, Risk, and Protection
Contributors: Jack M. Richman (Editor); Mark W. Fraser (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: November 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780275967246
Subjects: Adolescents; Child welfare; Children; Juvenile offenders; Violence in Society; Parent And Child; Violence (Sociological Aspects); Family & Relationships; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Sociology; General; Social Work; Social Science / Social Work; Conflict Resolution; Criminology; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Children and violence; Resilience (Personality trait); Resilience (Personality trait) in adolescence; Youth and violence
First sentence: In both the scientific and popular literatures, the related concepts of risk, protection, and resilience have emerged as useful constructs for conceptualizing the development of social and health problems, particularly the problems confronting children and their families (see, e.g., Fraser, 1997).