Youth violence : sources and solutions in South Africa / edited by Catherine L. Ward, Amelia van der Merwe, Andrew Dawes
- Published:
- Claremont [South Africa] : UCT Press, [2012]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2012
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 432 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators:
- Dawes, Andrew
Van der Merwe, Amelia
Ward, Catherine L. - Access Online:
- www.oapen.org
- Restrictions on Access:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
- Contents:
- Youth violence in South Africa: setting the scene / Catherine L. Ward, Andrew Dawes & Richard Matzopoulos -- Gender, class, 'race' and violence / Don Foster -- The development of youth violence: an ecological understanding / Amelia van der Merwe, Andrew Dawes & Catherine L. Ward -- The situation of the youth in South Africa / Saadhna Panday [and others] -- Preventing the development of youth violence in the early years: implications for South African practice / Mark Tomlinson, Andrew Dawes & Alan J. Flisher -- School-based youth violence prevention interventions / Aník Gevers & Alan J. Flisher -- Interventions for out-of-school contexts / Lisa Wegner & Linda Caldwell -- Intervening with youths in gangs / Adam Cooper & Catherine L. Ward -- Youthful sex offending: the South African context, risks and effective management / Amelia van der Merwe, Ulrich Meys & Samantha Waterhouse -- Screen media violence and the socialisation of young viewers / Jane Stadler -- Interventions for young offenders: what we know about what 'works' in diversion programmes / Amelia van der Merwe & Andrew Dawes -- Addressing youth violence in cities and neighbourhoods / Margaret Shaw -- The South African context: future directions in research and practice / Amelia van der Merwe, Andrew Dawes & Catherine L. Ward.
- Summary:
- A valuable source of information for psychologists, this book thoroughly and carefully reviews the evidence for risk of, and protective factors that influence, the likelihood of young people acting aggressively. It looks at the problem from a multitude of perspectives, including developmental psychology, and the influences of race, class, and gender. This account also explores effective interventions in the contexts of young people's livesin their homes, neighborhoods, and schools as well as in their participation in leisure activities, gangs, and the media. Suggestions are made for keeping an evidence-based perspective and interventions from other contexts are adapted for developing world contexts such as South Africa.
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- ISBN:
- 1919895736 (electronic bk.)
9781919895734 (electronic bk.)
9781920541651 (electronic bk.)
1920541659 (electronic bk.)
9781919895871 (electronic bk.)
1919895876 (electronic bk.)
9781920541286 (electronic bk.)
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