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Riley, Norman – Crisis, 1986
Presents information, statistical and anecdotal, on the disproportionate involvement of Black youth in crime. Describes the existence of a large, alienated underclass of Black youth, composed of drug pushers and users. Examines political, social, and familial causes of this problem and suggests some solutions. (KH)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Community Action, Crime, Delinquency Causes

Scheier, Lawrence M.; Botvin, Gilbert J.; Miller, Nicole L. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 1999
Examines personal life events and neighborhood stress as determinants of alcohol use among urban, minority youth. Analyses were constructed to examine the ability of psychosocial functioning to moderate relations between life events, neighborhood stress, and alcohol use. Both positive and negative life events and neighborhood stress uniquely…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Drinking, Life Events, Minority Group Children

Covington, Jeanette – Social Justice, 1997
Examines how the minority drug problem is framed in terms of anomie and underclass models suggesting that drug subcultures in urban black areas are formed as an adaptation to aggregate community conditions. The article considers how researchers use ecological and ethnographic data to back up claims that drug subcultures are a response to inner…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Characteristics, Culture, Drug Use
Waits, Mary Jo; Johnson, Ryan; Kornreich, Toby; Klym, Mark; Leland, Karen – 1998
In 1996, drawing from religious, educational, social services, media, neighborhoods, nonprofits, and health-providing sectors of the community, the Phoenix Violence Prevention Initiative (PVPI) was conceived. During Phase One of the initiative, the following seven points regarding prevention and prevention design strategies were assembled: (1)…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Crime, Crime Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
Homes for the Homeless, Inc., New York, NY. – 1999
In the early part of 1999, the Institute for Children and Poverty surveyed almost 2,000 families with more than 4,000 children in 24 locations to assess the state of homeless children across the United States. This report tells their story. Families account for almost 40% of U.S. homeless people, and in some cities that percentage is even higher.…
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Homeless People, Low Income Groups
Prattis, Paulette – Today's Education, 1980
Urban education is working and will continue to work if budgetary problems are resolved. Urban schools can and will succeed if less emphasis is put on negative issues, such as crime. (CJ)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, High Schools, Student Needs, Teacher Role

Howley, Aimee – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1996
"Creating the Dropout" traces the history of school leaving and the concept of the dropout. The dropout was invented, not discovered, only being explicitly recognized after 1960. Inventing the dropout became a way to channel general concerns about the condition of cities, identifying dropouts as authors of their own troubles. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational History
Dalaker, Joseph; Proctor, Bernadette D. – 2000
This report illustrates how poverty rates in the United States vary by selected characteristics: age, race and Hispanic origin, nativity, family composition, work experience, and geography. The estimates in the report are based on interviews with population samples. The Current Population Survey each March interviews approximately 50,000…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, Disadvantaged Youth, Ethnicity

Betson, David M.; Michael, Robert T. – Future of Children, 1997
Explores why there are so many poor children in the United States, beginning with a review of the reasons for adult poverty. Economic and demographic factors are considered in an analysis of the likelihood that an individual will earn enough to keep his or her family out of poverty. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Demography, Disadvantaged Youth

Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Duncan, Greg J. – Future of Children, 1997
Focuses on recent studies that explore the relationships between poverty and child outcomes in depth. Overall, this research supports the conclusion that family income has selective, but sometimes quite substantial, effects on child and adolescent well-being. Implications for interventions during childhood are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Early Intervention, Economic Factors

Madriz, Esther – Social Justice, 1997
Studied the impact of victimization and fear of crime on 56 Latina teenagers in urban and suburban areas. Fear of crime was associated not only with the variables traditionally correlated with fear of crime, but also with feelings of identity. Also examined were coping mechanisms Latina teenagers used to deal with those fears. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Crime, Fear

Laidler, Karen A. Joe; Hunt, Geoffrey – Social Justice, 1997
Challenges recent portrayals of the demonic character of female gang members by examining the life histories and social organizations of several different female gangs. Interviews with 65 female gang members from seven groups show that these young women experience potential and actual violence in different violence prone situations. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Inner City, Interviews
Delgado, Richard, Ed.; Stefancic, Jean, Ed. – 1998
This collection explores the struggles of the varied Latino peoples for identity, recognition, and legitimacy in the United States. Issues such as what it means to be Latino/a, what a just immigration policy should be, relations between Latinos and other cultural groups, and whether being Latino is a race or an ethnicity are explored. The 94…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Essays, Ethnicity, Hispanic Americans
Bowser, Benjamin P.; Whittle, K. Deborah – 1998
A series of meetings with leaders from six communities explored how efforts to reduce substance abuse may be affecting race relations. Leaders from these communities, located in Los Angeles (California), Mobile (Alabama), Gallup (New Mexico), Kansas City (Missouri), San Francisco (California), and Vallejo (California), spoke about discord between…
Descriptors: Community Action, Cooperation, Cultural Differences, Ethnicity
Watanabe, Paul; Jennings, James; Melendez, Edwin; Liu, Michael; Remy, Gemima; Gomez, Christina; Williams, Russell – 1996
Many minorities in Boston (Massachusetts) do not feel part of the entire community because the city does not work for people in minority groups in fundamental ways. This report analyzes the content and consequences of Boston's many contradictions and the challenges these contradictions pose for the city's three major communities of color: Blacks,…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Demography, Ethnicity