Youth, Violence, and Social Disintegration: New Directions for Youth Development, Number 119

by Wilhelm Heitmeyer

How and why do young people become perpetrators and victims of violence? This volume examines violent behavior and addresses these questions in an international context.

In youth violence, what roles are played by public spaces, the institutional context, socialization processes, religion and other kinds of ideologies, and, more generally, the experience of social disintegration? Are there global commonalities with regard to programs for preventing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470424095
• ISBN13: 9780470424094
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.7"