Global Perspectives On Youth Gang Behavior Violence And Weapons Use

Author : Harding, Simon
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466699396
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Youth Gang Behavior, Violence, and Weapons Use written by Harding, Simon and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth violence has become a concern as gangs become a popular option for urban children and teenagers and weapons use among young populations becomes more prevalent. Exploring the psychological motivations and foundations upon which such violence is developed and cultivated can assist in better understanding the modern dilemma of violence, weapons use, and gang behavior among children, teenagers, and young adults. Global Perspectives on Youth Gang Behavior, Violence, and Weapons Use reconsiders the traditional understandings of youth violence in various forms, such as gang activities, criminal behavior, and weapons use. Focusing on the psychosocial elements of violence among children, teenagers, and young adults, this timely publication is ideally designed for use by policy makers and government executives, professionals, educators, and graduate-level students involved in psychology, criminology, social work, and criminal justice studies.

Author : Maureen P. Duffy
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teen Gangs written by Maureen P. Duffy and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays in which the authors examine issues of and responses to teen gangs in fourteen countries, including Australia, Great Britain, Israel, Puerto Rico, and the United States.

Author : Forge, John
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522539859
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Morality of Weapons Design and Development: Emerging Research and Opportunities written by Forge, John and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries around the globe are continuously investing money into weapon development and manufacturing. While weapon design has been a relevant topic, from the Middle Ages to today, the morality of this practice is not commonly presented in research. The Morality of Weapons Design and Development: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential scholarly resource that presents detailed discussions on ethical dilemmas in weapons design and innovations. While highlighting relevant topics including projectile and nuclear weapons, the true costs of war, design in peacetime, and weapons development and justification, this book is an ideal resource for researchers, engineers, graduate students, and professionals who have an interest in weapons design, development, and ethics.

Author : Annette Bailey
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772583944
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gun Violence and Gun Control: Critical Engagements written by Annette Bailey and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary anthology explores a wide range of intersecting issues contributing to and arising from gun violence. Millions of people are hurt and killed by gun violence globally, and the traumatic realities of these events are navigated by individuals and communities widely. In this context, gun violence fundamentally threatens social functioning in significant ways, and profoundly test the resilience of families. The resulting transformations carry social, political, legal and economic implications for mothering, family dynamics, and community engagement. This collaborative volume brings together diverse perspectives intended to deconstruct perceptions, realities, risks and impacts of gun violence, as seen by researchers, educators, community advocates, public health/health care experts, criminologists, social workers, field-based practitioners, and victims/survivors of gun violence. The distinct and broad range of contributions in this volume critically unpacks representations, stress and trauma, resilience, advocacy/activism, policymaking, family functioning, social justice and equity, governmentality and the criminal justice system, public health/health care, and community programs/interventions. Ultimately, the work is a unique contribution to the literature in which there is a lack of wide academic consideration of gun violence and a demonstrably unsatisfactory political response stretching back decades.

Author : Stacey, Emily
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522521917
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combating Internet-Enabled Terrorism: Emerging Research and Opportunities written by Stacey, Emily and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet has become a vital part of modern society, with its impact reaching from private lives into the public sphere. However, along with its positive effects, the dissemination of this technology has created opportunities for increased cyber terrorism activities. Combating Internet-Enabled Terrorism: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an informative resource that highlights developments that will aid in combating internet-based hostility and violence. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant topics that include social media, military tactics, and counterterrorism, this publication will provide insight into the world of internet terrorism to researchers, academicians, and graduate students in this field.

Author : Laura Lynn Hansen
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543856241
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juvenile Delinquency written by Laura Lynn Hansen and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introductory book for Criminal Justice courses on Juvenile Delinquency"--

Author : Ross Deuchar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331978899X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangs and Spirituality written by Ross Deuchar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with male gang members and offenders as well as insights gathered from pastors, chaplains, coaches and personal mentors, the testimonials span three continents, focusing on the USA, Scotland, Denmark and Hong Kong. This volume offers unique empirical findings about the role that religion and spirituality can play in enabling some male gang members and offenders to transition into a new social sphere characterised by the presence of substitute forms of brotherhood and trust, and alternative forms of masculine status. The author presents critical insights into the potential relationship between religious and spiritual participation and the emergence of coping strategies to deal with the ‘stigmata’ that gang masculinity leaves behind. With its wide-ranging and multi-perspective approach, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of gang culture, masculinity and spirituality, as well as policy makers and practitioners.

Author : Dariusz Dziewanski
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839097329
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gang Entry and Exit in Cape Town written by Dariusz Dziewanski and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint Winner of the 2023 ASSAf Humanities Book Award in the Emerging Researcher Category This book showcases a practical starting point for changing how criminologists think about gangs and street culture – offering hope to those trying to exit gang life, as well as those trying to help them do so.

Author : Pyrooz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197618154
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society written by Pyrooz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of "looking back, moving forward" by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This international, interdisciplinary collective of authors provides readers with a rare tour of the field in its entirety, expertly navigating thorny debates and the at-times contentious history of gang research, while simultaneously synthesizing flourishing areas of study that advance the field into the 21st century. The volume is divided into six cohesive sections that reflect the diverse field of gang studies and capture the large-scale cultural, economic, political, and social changes occurring within the world of gangs in the last century; anticipating immense changes on the horizon. From definitions to history to theory to epistemology to technology to policy and practice, this unprecedented volume captures the most timely and important topics in the field. When readers finish this book, they will be more confident in what we know and do not know about gangs in our society"--

Author : Robert J. Franzese
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398091072
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book YOUTH GANGS written by Robert J. Franzese and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quarter century since the first edition of this book, scholarship on gangs in general, and especially youth gangs, has grown exponentially. This massive expansion of the literature on youth gangs, especially in the past decade, warranted this expanded and updated fourth edition. The first chapter has an expanded discussion of definitional issues, plus recent data from the National Youth Gang Survey, material on the evolving economic nature of gangs, and gang use of internet and social media. The second chapter continues by examining gang violence and drug involvement, and the extent to which they are intercorrelated, with new material on victimization of gang members and gang involvement in drug use and sales. Chapter 3 focuses on racial and ethnic decadences in gangs and the important role of race and ethnicity on gang membership and gang behavior in the U.S. The fourth chapter examines female gangs and gang membership and the changes that have taken place in the nature and extent of female gang membership over time. The fifth and sixth chapters place contemporary American gangs in the historical and international perspective. Chapter 5 includes a new section on youth gangs in the new millennium, and Chapter 6 has been reorganized, particularly to reflect the burgeoning research on European and other international gangs since the turn of the millennium. Chapter 7 has been expanded to include recent developments in the actual and potential application of biosocial, psychological, and life course developmental theories to gangs. Chapter 8 provides a comprehensive, multilevel theory of gangs with updates including new propositions, and new evidence for both the new and old propositions, based on more recent work in theory development and theory testing for gangs. The ninth and tenth chapters’ revisions focus on legislative and justice system efforts to deter gang crime and membership. Chapter 10 also focuses on intervention and assistance programs outside the justice system, including discussion of the Gang Resistance Education and Training program. The final chapter concludes by considering the future of youth gangs in the U.S. and elsewhere in light of historical and cross-national evidence, theory, and experience with gang interventions and programs, considering more recent developments in those areas, and whether they justify any change and for what would be expected of the future of youth gangs.