NCJ Number
180190
Editor(s)
Meredith W. Watts
Date Published
1998
Length
255 pages
Annotation
The central purpose of this book is to examine youth and violence through a prism that refracts diverse cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Abstract
Book chapters are organized according to four parts. The first part presents macro-social views of youth and violence: materialism, individualism, and social attitudes of youth in Japan; normalcy, deviance, and the culture of youth violence in Brazil; and authoritarianism and aggression in right-wing extremist youth in Germany. The second part covers violence and social organization and includes chapters on youth street gangs, economic restructuring and the urban underclass, patterns in gang violence in the United States, collective violence as social control among right-wing youth in Germany, and varieties of violent tendencies among male youth. The third part focuses on bullying in schools in Japan, Germany, and the United States. The fourth part examines youth violence and citizenship in the United States. References, notes, tables, and figures