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Juvenile Homicide : Fatal Assault or Lethal Intent?.

Author
Warley, Raquel Maria
Published
El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (203 pages).
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English.
Contents
List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1: Juvenile Homicide: A Definition of the Problem; Introduction; Policy and Practice Implications; A Mandate for Forensic Social Work; Purpose of the Present Study; CHAPTER 2: Juvenile Homicide: Structural and Cultural Risk Factors; Dynamic Contextualism: An Integrated Theory of Juvenile Homicide; Structural Considerations; Cultural Considerations; CHAPTER 3: Similarly Situated Males: The Situational Nature of Male-to-Male Violence; Situational Contingencies., Situated Transactions and Coercive Power in the Production of Fatal Violence; CHAPTER 4: Lethal Intent and the Weapon Instrumentality Effect; The Criminal Lethality Perspective; Criminal Lethality and Firearm Availability; Lethal Intent and Weapon Facilitation; Empirical Literature Review of Weapon Instrumentality; CHAPTER 5: The Research Strategy; Secondary Analysis: Design And Rationale; The Original Study: Learning About Drugs and Violence Among Adolescents; Juvenile Lethality: The Present Investigation; Methodological Limitations and Anticipated Contributions., and CHAPTER 6: Violent Encounters Involving Juvenile Male Offenders Data Analysis Strategy; Offense Profile: Offender and Victim Characteristics; Situational Risk Factors for Severity of Incident Outcome; Situational Risk Factors for Lethal Intent; CHAPTER 7: Developing Youth Violence Prevention and Intervention Strategies; Discussion of Findings; Practice Implications of the Study; Conclusion; Endnotes; Appendix A: Response Pattern for Motive Variable; Appendix B: Recoding Scheme for Motive Variable; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
Warley's work focuses on male-to-male violent juvenile encounters. Using a multi-perspective framework that encompasses strain theory, social disorganization theory, the subculture of violence thesis, as well as theories of criminal lethality and compulsory masculinity, background characteristics are assessed to delineate structural-cultural factors that dispose adolescent males to violence. Consideration is also given to crime characteristics that differentiate impulsive killing from premeditated homicide. Disentangling weapon instrumentality effect from offenders' intentionality is a primary.
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ISBN
9781593326913
1593326912
9781593324803 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1593324804 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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