Youth in cities: a cross-national perspective
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2002
Series:Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Comparative perspectives of urban youth / Marta Tienda and William Julius Wilson -- Steering by the stars / Mamphela Ramphele -- Children show the way / Jill Swart-Kruger and Louise Chawla -- Adolescents as collaborators / Felton Earls and Mary Carlson -- Have cities ceased to function as "integration machines" for young people? / Wilhelm Heitmeyer -- From street children to all children / Irene Rizzini, Gary Barker, and Neide Cassaniga -- Youth crime, community development, and social justice / Robert White -- Youth violence prevention in America / Deborah Prothrow-Stith -- Social learning and community participation with children at risk in two marginalized urban neighborhoods in Amman, Jordan / Curtis N. Rhodes [and others] -- Work by the young / Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs -- Life skills for Ugandan youth / Fred Ogwal-Oyee -- Prospect and retrospect / Marta Tienda and William Julius Wilson
Using both comparative evidence and case studies, this volume illustrates the common needs of youth throughout the world, despite the highly varied socio-cultural circumstances in which they develop, and makes a case for the role of youth as creative social assets and positive forces for social change
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 288 pages)
ISBN:0511064004
0511072465
0511181086
0521809088
9780511064005
9780511072468
9780511181085
9780521809085

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