Youth violence : sources and solutions in South Africa
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Youth violence : sources and solutions in South Africa
UCT Press, 2012
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"The support of the Human Sciences Research Council for the early phase of developing this book; the support of the University of Cape Town for bringing it to completion ..."--Acknowledgements
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book thoroughly and carefully reviews the evidence for risk and protective factors that influence the likelihood of young people acting aggressively. Layers of understanding are built by viewing the problem from a multitude of perspectives, including the current situation in which South African youth are growing up, perspectives from developmental psychology, the influences of race, class and gender, and of the media. The book examines the evidence for effective interventions in the contexts of young people's lives - their homes, their schools, their leisure activities, with gangs, in the criminal justice system, in cities and neighbourhoods, and with sexual offenders. In doing so, thoughtful suggestions are made for keeping an evidence-based perspective while (necessarily) adapting interventions for developing world contexts, such as South Africa.
Table of Contents
- Setting the Scene
- The Situation of Youth
- Gender, Class Race & Violence
- The Development of Youth Violence: An Ecological Understanding
- Screen Media Violence & the Socialisation of Young Viewers
- Building an Evidence Base for Interventions in the Developing World: Working with What We Have to Intervene Now
- Preventing the Development of Youth Violence in the Early Years: Implications for South African Practice
- School-Based Youth Violence Prevention Interventions
- Interventions for Out-of-School Contexts
- Youthful Sex Offending: The South African Context, Risks & Effective Management
- Interventions in the Criminal Justice System: What We Know About "What Works"
- Intervening with Youth in Gangs
- Addressing Youth Violence in Cities & Neighbourhoods
- The South African Context: Future Directions In Research & Practice.
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