Violence and childhood in the inner city

The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in the urban centers less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often permeates urban childhoods. They consider why there is so much violence, why some people become violent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McCord, Joan (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1997.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Cambridge criminology series.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Violence and the inner-city street code / Elijah Anderson
  • The embeddedness of child and adolescent development: a community-level perspective on urban violence / Robert J. Sampson
  • Placing American urban violence in context / Joan McCord
  • Neuropsychology, antisocial behavior, and neighborhood context / Terrie E. Moffitt
  • Psychological mediators of violence in urban youth / Ronald G. Slaby
  • Understanding and preventing child abuse in urban settings / Felton Earls and Jacqueline Barnes
  • Intervening to prevent childhood aggression in the inner city / Nancy G. Guerra.