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Violence and Minority Youth: The Effects of Risk and Asset Factors on Fighting among African American Children and Adolescents
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Wright, Darlene R.; Fitzpatrick, Kevin M. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
This cross-sectional study examined risk and asset factors thought to be associated with fighting among a sample of 1,642 African American children and adolescents in a central Alabama school district. Results show that poor grades, parental abuse, and gang affiliation were significant risk factors associated with higher frequency of fighting.…
Descriptors: African American Children, Adolescents, Risk, Juvenile Gangs