Children Of The Streets

Author : Kwei Quartey
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812981677
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Street written by Kwei Quartey and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the slums of Accra, Ghana’s fast-moving, cosmopolitan capital, teenagers are turning up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen many crimes, but this latest string of murders—in which all the young victims bear a chilling signature—is the most unsettling of his career. Are these heinous acts a form of ritual killing or the work of a lone, cold-blooded monster? With time running out, Dawson embarks on a harrowing journey through the city’s underbelly and confronts the brutal world of the urban poor, where street children are forced to fight for their very survival—and a cunning killer seems just out of reach.

Author : Richard W. Stavros
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1645696502
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Streets written by Richard W. Stavros and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suburban golden boy, an inner-city girl forced to grow up too soon, and a street kid doing whatever it takes to survive cross paths in New York City. As their fates intertwine, they find themselves wrapped up in the underworld workings of a powerful crime boss. In a struggle to find salvation and meaning in dark times, they search for forgiveness and understanding in places where there seem to be none. When one family is torn apart, another is brought together as Children of the Streets, Part 1: The Runaways and Part 2: The Aftermath are presented together in one volume: Scott's Story.

Author : Harry M. Ward
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786498536
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920 written by Harry M. Ward and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia's capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. From 1905 to 1915 there was an official red light district. The police had their hands full with drunks and riffraff, and a variety of street urchins and waifs--most of whom were very poor--found themselves on the wrong side of the law. The juvenile delinquents of Richmond--some barely out of infancy--were held accountable in the Police Court. A juvenile court system was not established until 1916. Presiding over the Police Court for 32 years was Justice John Jeter Crutchfield who, though unlearned in the law, functioned like a biblical Solomon but with great showmanship. The Police Court attracted many tourists and some of Virginia's literary figures cut their teeth writing newspaper coverage of the proceedings, vying with each other for the most hilarious slant. What emerges from the public record is an amusing and touching picture of what life was really like in the post-Reconstruction urban South.

Author : Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415923224
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children on the Streets of the Americas written by Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547395744
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.

Author : Walter de Oliveira
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000156680
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working with Children on the Streets of Brazil written by Walter de Oliveira and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaffirm your political and spiritual commitment to helping the poor and oppressed! How can teachers and social workers reach the endangered kids who seldom come to school? By going to the streets, where the children live, work, fight, steal, get sick, sell their bodies, and all too often die. Working with Children on the Streets of Brazil is an in-depth study of Brazil's homeless children and the street youthworkers who offer them food, clothing, beds, hope, medical attention, education, and simple respect. The street children of Brazil live in unimaginable poverty and squalor, stealing jewelry or selling their bodies to survive, wandering homeless and untaught, pursued by death squads who clean up the streets by washing them with blood. Yet the street youthworkers interviewed in this moving, powerful book--some inspired by the Catholic Church's Liberation Theology movement, some employed by the government or private agencies--continue their efforts to help and heal these children, often with remarkable success. Their work is widely respected, and their unique viewpoint on serving throwaway children can offer creative solutions for social service workers around the globe. Many of the issues discussed in Working with Children on the Streets of Brazil will be painfully familiar to social service workers everywhere, including: the problems of how to identify, classify, and count the children of the streets the reasons children leave or lose their homes the implications of policy decisions and socioeconomic forces on the children's lives the clash between law-and-order advocates and social service professionals the negative effects of deinstitutionalization and overcrowded youth homes the tragic societal consequences of the widening gap between rich and poor the problems of youth crime and violence the difficulties in delivering education, health care, and basic services for homeless children This impressive book offers a detailed history of the development of street social education; a study of the aims, methods, and experiences of youthworkers; and solid advice on using the principles and practices of street social education to reach the at-risk youth of any country, including the United States. Working with Children on the Streets of Brazil is both a scholarly work on the phenomenon of homeless children and a rousing call to action that will remind you of the reasons you chose to work in social services.

Author : Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134001851
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children on the Streets of the Americas written by Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Tobias Hecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521598699
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Home in the Street written by Tobias Hecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children.

Author : Deborah Nadal
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271086866
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabies in the Streets written by Deborah Nadal and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Found in two-thirds of the world, rabies is a devastating infectious disease with a 99.9 percent case-fatality rate and no cure once clinical signs appear. Rabies in the Streets tells the compelling story of the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in India, where one-third of human rabies deaths occur. Deborah Nadal argues that only a One Health approach of “interspecies camaraderie” can save people and animals from the horrors of rabies and almost certain death. Grounded in multispecies ethnography, this book leads the reader through the streets and slums of Delhi and Jaipur, where people and animals, such as dogs, cows, and macaques, interact intimately and sometimes violently. Nadal explores the intricate web of factors that bring humans and animals into contact with one another within these urban spaces and create favorable pathways for the transmission of the rabies virus across species. This book shows how rabies is endemic in India for reasons that are as much social, cultural, and political as they are biological, ranging from inadequate sanitation to religious customs, from vaccine shortages to reliance on traditional medicine. The continuous emergence (and reemergence) of infectious diseases despite technical medical progress is a growing concern of our times and clearly questions the way we think of animal and environmental health. This original account of rabies challenges conventional approaches of separation and extermination, arguing instead that a One Health approach is our best chance at fostering mutual survival in a world increasingly overpopulated by humans, animals, and deadly pathogens.

Author : G.K. Lieten
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331911722X
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Street Life written by G.K. Lieten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru. It looks at some of the conceptual issues and, after analysing why children are in the street and what behaviour and which aspirations they exhibit, deals with the policy issues and lessons to be learned. This brief investigates when and why the transition from children on the street (street-working children) to children of the street (street living children) takes place and elucidates how they survive. It explains the fluidity and the risks involved in any type of child street life.