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Peer reviewedMarshall, Joseph E., Jr. – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1995
Describes a three-tiered approach that the Omega Boys Club of San Francisco uses to help stop violence among inner-city youth. Essential steps of the plan are to provide appropriate information through effective communication channels, to show youth alternative ways of living that allow them to release their negative behavior, and to teach them…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Inner City, Juvenile Gangs, Mass Media
Download full textFeldman, Harvey W.; And Others – 1992
A study of inner-city youth in San Francisco (California) shows that behavior and street ideology once associated exclusively with gangs have now become the world view of a large segment of inner-city young people, especially males. Inner-city young people who aspire to material success do not see a realistic connection between public education…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Blacks, Crime
