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Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach situates violence within a social, cultural, and historical context. Edited by distinguished scholars Barbara C. Wallace and Robert T. Carter, this unique volume explores historical factors, socialization influences, and the historical and contemporary dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressor. State-of-the-art research guides a diverse group of psychologists, educators, policy-makers, religious leaders, community members, victims, and perpetrators in finding viable solutions to violence.
African American Adolescent Males Living in Violent Communities: Coping with Interpersonal Assaultive Violence
African American Adolescent Males Living in Violent Communities: Coping with Interpersonal Assaultive Violence
Since the early 1980s, there have been an increasing number of highly visible stories in the media about violent incidents involving young people in suburban, rural, and inner-city communities across the United States. Initially, most of these stories told of homicides among urban African American adolescents. More recently, they have reported on mass homicides perpetrated by White suburban/rural male adolescents and hate crimes perpetrated by young people targeting members of different minority groups. The stories of youth involvement in violence are indeed alarming, and the statistics that accompany them have caused many to believe that the words youth and violence ...
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