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What's a Threat on Social Media? How Black and Latino Chicago Young Men Define and Navigate Threats Online
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Patton, Desmond Upton; Leonard, Patrick; Elaesser, Caitlin; Eschmann, Robert D.; Patel, Sadiq; Crosby, Shantel – Youth & Society, 2019
Youth living in violent urban neighborhoods increasingly post messages online from urban street corners. The decline of the digital divide and the proliferation of social media platforms connect youth to peer communities who may share experiences with neighborhood stress and trauma. Social media can also be used for targeted retribution when…
Descriptors: Social Media, Juvenile Gangs, Males, African Americans
"If They Focus on Giving Us a Chance in Life We Can Actually Do Something in This World": Poverty, Inequality, and Youths' Critical Consciousness
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Roy, Amanda L.; Raver, C. Cybele; Masucci, Michael D.; DeJoseph, Meriah – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Critical consciousness (CC) has emerged as a framework for understanding how low-income and racial/ethnic minority youth recognize, interpret, and work to change the experiences and systems of oppression that they face in their daily lives. Despite this, relatively little is known about how youths' experiences with economic hardship and structural…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Poverty, Minority Groups, Youth
"If They Focus on Giving Us a Chance in Life We Can Actually Do Something in This World": Poverty, Inequality and Youths' Critical Consciousness
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Roy, Amanda L.; Raver, Cybele C.; Masucci, Michael D.; DeJospeh, Meriah – Grantee Submission, 2019
Critical consciousness (CC) has emerged as a framework for understanding how low-income and racial/ethnic minority youth recognize, interpret, and work to change the experiences and systems of oppression that they face in their daily lives. Despite this, relatively little is known about how youths' experiences with economic hardship and structural…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Poverty, Minority Groups, Youth
Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence.
Moore, Mark H., Ed.; Petrie, Carol V., Ed.; Braga, Anthony A., Ed.; McLaughlin, Brenda L., Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers is the outcome of the National Academies' effort to glean information from six different case studies of student-perpetrated school shootings. Part 1, "Case Studies of Lethal School Violence," includes: "The Copycat Factor: Mental Illness, Guns, and the Shooting Incident at Heritage High School, Rockdale…
Descriptors: Bullying, Guns, Homicide, Mental Disorders