Violence and Childhood in the Inner City

Zusammenfassung The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life! especially childhood! in American cities safer. They consider why there is so much violence! why some people become violent and others do not! and why violence is more prevalent in some areas. The authors also review a variety of intervention strategies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Preface Joan McCord; 2. Violence and the inner-city street code Elijah Anderson; 3. The embeddedness of child and adolescent development: a community-level perspective on urban violence Robert J. Sampson; 4. Placing American urban violence in context Joan McCord; 5. Neuro-psychology, antisocial behavior, and neighborhood context Terrie E. Moffitt; 6. Development of psychological mediators of violence in urban youth Ronald G. Slaby; 7. Understanding and preventing child abuse in urban settings Felton Earls and Jacqueline Barnes; 8. Intervening to prevent childhood aggression in the inner-city Nancy G. Guerra.

Product details

• Assisted by: Alfred Blumstein (Editor), Joan Mccord (Editor), McCord Joan (Editor)
• Authors: Joan Mccord, Joan Ed. McCord, Joan Ed McCord, Joan (Temple University Mccord
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 13.10.1997
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780521587204
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58720-4
• Pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Criminology; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Violence in society, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Violence and abuse in society