Joan McCord Ed.

Violence and Childhood in the Inner City

Herausgeber: Blumstein, Alfred; Mccord, Joan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors present various opinions about the causes of violence in American cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521587204
• ISBN-10: 0521587204
• Artikelnr.: 21148447

Inhaltsangabe

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.