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Gangs: The Origins and Impact of Contemporary Youth Gangs in the United States.
Cummings, Scott, Ed.; Monti, Daniel J., Ed. – 1993
This book presents papers from some leading social scientists and scholars who examine the contemporary contours of America's gang problem. New material is provided on wilding (i.e., running amok for no specific reason) gangs, migration and drug trafficking, and public education disruption. Other topics involve organization of gangs, their social…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Crime, Delinquency, Drug Use
The Urban Primary School. Education in an Urbanised Society
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Maguire, Meg; Wooldridge, Tim; Pratt-Adams, Simon – Open University Press, 2006
This book offers an in-depth understanding of the unique challenges and contributions of urban primary schools. The authors set urban education in the wider social context of structural disadvantage, poverty, oppression and exclusion, and reassert some critical urban educational concerns. Recognizing that practice needs to be informed by theory,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Youth, Social Environment, Social Class
Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment.
Garbarino, James – 1995
The mere act of living in today's society is dangerous to the health and well-being of children and adolescents. The concept of the socially toxic environment is offered as a parallel to the environmental movement's analysis of physical toxicity. Social life is more risky than it was just 40 years ago, and the level of social and cultural poison…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Childhood Needs, Disadvantaged Youth
Adolescent Pregnancy in an Urban Environment: Issues, Programs, and Evaluation.
Hardy, Janet B.; Zabin, Laurie Schwab – 1991
An in-depth discussion of national and local statistics regarding teenage and adolescent pregnancy and the developmental issues involved opens this analysis. Problems and adverse consequences of adolescent pregnancy in an urban setting are explored using a city-wide random sample of adolescent births. A model pregnancy and parenting program and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Contraception, Early Parenthood
Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access: Many Routes, Difficult Paths. Higher Ed, Questions about the Purpose(s) of Colleges and Universities Volume 17
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Tierney, William G., Ed.; Colyar, Julia E., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2006
This book documents a year in the life of five adolescents preparing for college. The text examines the different pathways that brought these students to where they are: living in poverty, attending overcrowded schools, and the pressure to be the first in their families to attend college are just a few of the challenges these students must battle…
Descriptors: High School Students, Access to Education, Student Characteristics, Higher Education
Campus Violence: Kinds, Causes, and Cures.
Whitaker, Leighton C., Ed.; Pollard, Jeffrey W., Ed. – 1993
This volume offers 14 papers on the types, sources, and possible cures of violence on college campuses from prominent workers in higher education. Following a preface the titles are: (1) "Conceptualizing Campus Violence: Definitions, Underlying Factors, and Effects" by Mary L. Roark; (2) "Administrative Perspectives on Disruptive…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Antisocial Behavior, Campuses, Cognitive Style