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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Michelle Fine Tags: Afterword Source Type: journals

Mathematics, critical literacy, and youth participatory action researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study differs from and extends other studies that describe mathematics as a tool for social critique. It considers youth research in and through mathematics as a more ideologically open endeavor in that youth do not simply reproduce predetermined criticisms of social inequality. Thus, this project translates extensive work in critical literacy, new media literacy, and youth participatory action research to a mathematics context. (Source: New Directions for Youth Development)
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: K. Wayne Yang Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Chicana feminist strategies in a participatory action research project with transnational Latina youthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article discusses a participatory action research (PAR) project carried out with three transnational Latina youth in northern California and how the university researcher incorporated Chicana feminist strategies in the study. PAR and Chicana feminism place at the heart of research the knowledge that ordinary people produce, referring to this knowledge as conocimientos, or "homemade theory." The author discusses the project, the collaborative writing of a children's book based on two years of data collection, the challenges in being both an insider and an outsider to the community, how the youth created a counterstory ...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Patricia Sánchez Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

"Knowing the ledge": Participatory action research as legal studies for urban high school youthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Zero-tolerance discipline policies, harsh sentencing laws, and the gentrification of communities of color have devastating effects for the lives of young people. Coupled with the fact that urban schools can devalue their views, values, and understandings of the world, this article examines an effort to challenge deficit theories that permeate discussions on urban youth. Through the setting of a street law class at a high school with a social justice focus, two facilitators (an African American male and a Latina of Puerto Rican descent, one a qualitative sociologist and the other a lawyer, both trained as qualitative resear...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: David Stovall, Natalia Delgado Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

A social justice epistemology and pedagogy for Latina/o students: Transforming public education with participatory action researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The article reports on Latina/o high school students who conducted participatory action research (PAR) on problems that circumscribe their possibilities for self-determination. The intention is to legitimize student knowledge to develop effective educational policies and practices for young Latinas/os. PAR is engaged through the Social Justice Education Project, which provides students with all social science requirements for their junior and senior years. The mandated curriculum is supplemented with advanced-level readings from Chicana/o studies, critical race theory, critical pedagogy, and, most important, PAR. The inten...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Julio Cammarota, Augustine F. Romero Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Contextualizing black boys' use of a street identity in high schoolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This participatory action research project worked with four street-life-oriented black men to document how a community sample of street-life-oriented black adolescents between the ages of sixteen and nineteen frame street life as a site of resiliency inside schools based on 156 surveys, 10 individual interviews, and 1 group interview. Data collection took place primarily in Paterson, New Jersey, and Harlem, New York City. Findings reveal that the adolescents overall hold negative attitudes about their educational experiences within two dominant themes: student-teacher interactions and preparation for economic and education...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Yasser Arafat Payne, Brian Chad Starks, LaMar Rashad Gibson Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

From voice to agency: Guiding principles for participatory action research with youthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article begins by examining current crises facing historically marginalized youth, which necessitate more critical approaches to youth development and empirical investigations into the challenges that young people face. This requires not only listening to their voices, but actively engaging them in investigations of and interventions into social problems that affect their lives. Researching with youth raises particular dilemmas, however. The authors discuss strategies, within three guiding principles, that they found effective in conducting participatory action research with marginalized youth for the purposes of soci...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Louie F. Rodríguez, Tara M. Brown Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Pedro A. Noguera Tags: Foreword Source Type: journals

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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - August 31, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Tara M. Brown, Louie F. Rodríguez Tags: Issue Editors' Notes Source Type: journals

The president's role in advancing civic engagement: The Widener-Chester PartnershipEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study, presented from the perspective of the university's president, highlights the challenges associated with engaging in such work and provides insight into possible future directions for advancing an institution-wide civic engagement agenda. It outlines in detail the initiatives created between Widener and the Chester, Pennsylvania, school district over six years and explains how after many failures, the university came to the conclusion that its best chance for success would be to develop a separately chartered university partnership school. The account forcefully underscores that the costs associated with civic e...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - July 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: James T. Harris III Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Dayton's neighborhood school centersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article describes the planning and implementation of Dayton's Neighborhood School Centers. Special emphasis is placed on the role of the University of Dayton, especially the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community. The Fitz Center plays a pivotal role in implementing this highly collaborative effort, including project leadership; community organizing; coaching of five site coordinators at neighborhood school sites; and faculty-mentored student interns to assist with programming for student success, family support, health and team sports, and extensive service-learning coordination. The Dayton Foundation, Dayton Public...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - July 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Dick Ferguson Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative: Working to reverse the obesity epidemic through academically based community serviceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (AUNI) presents a fruitful partnership between faculty and students at a premier research university and members of the surrounding community aimed at addressing the problem of childhood obesity. AUNI uses a problem-solving approach to learning by focusing course activities, including service-learning, on understanding and mitigating the obesity culture. (Source: New Directions for Youth Development)
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - July 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Francis E. Johnston Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

George Washington Community High School: Analysis of a partnership networkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After five years with no public schools in their community, residents and neighborhood organizations of the Near Westside of Indianapolis advocated for the opening of George Washington Community High School (GWCHS). As a neighborhood in close proximity to the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, the Near Westside and campus worked together to address this issue and improve the educational success of youth. In fall 2000, GWCHS opened as a community school and now thrives as a national model, due in part to its network of community relationships. This account analyzes the development of the school by ...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - July 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Robert G. Bringle, Starla D.H. Officer, Jim Grim, Julie A. Hatcher Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

The connection: Schooling, youth development, and community building - The Futures Academy caseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Universities, because of their vast human and fiscal resources, can play the central role in assisting in the development of school-centered community development programs that make youth development their top priority. The Futures Academy, a K-8 public school in the Fruit Belt, an inner-city neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, offers a useful model of community development in partnership with the Center for Urban Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The goal of the project is to create opportunities for students to apply the knowledge and skills they learn in the classroom to the goal of working with oth...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - July 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Henry Louis Taylor Jr., Linda Greenough McGlynn Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

University-school-community partnerships for youth development and democratic renewalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Democratic partnerships of universities, schools, and an array of neighborhood and community organizations are the most promising means of improving the lives of our nation's young people. Over the past two decades, many colleges and universities have been experiencing a renaissance in engagement activities. Universities, once ivory towers, have increasingly come to recognize that their destinies are inextricably linked with their communities. Authentic democratic partnerships have three characteristics: they are devised to achieve democratic purposes, the collective work is advanced through inclusive and democratic proces...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - July 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Ira Harkavy, Matthew Hartley Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - July 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Tags: Executive Summary Source Type: journals

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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - May 31, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Ira Harkavy, Matthew Hartley Tags: Issue Editors' Notes Source Type: journals

The quest for quality: Recent developments and future directions for the out-of-school-time fieldEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores key developments related to the issue of quality in the OST field during the past several years and then looks ahead at opportunities for future progress. From a practice perspective, one of the most notable recent developments is the proliferation of intentional, systemic efforts to improve program quality. From a policy perspective, discussions related to quality within the OST field reflect broader trends within human services and education toward increased accountability. In addition to holding systems accountable for producing client outcomes, there is an emerging trend toward holding systems and...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - April 8, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Nicole Yohalem, Robert C. Granger, Karen J. Pittman Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Quality and accountability in the out-of-school-time sectorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the fragmented out-of-school-time sector, defining and measuring quality in terms of staff behaviors at the point of service provides a common framework that can reduce obstacles to cross-sector and cross-program performance improvement efforts and streamline adoption of data-driven accountability policies. This chapter views the point of service, that is, the microsettings where adults and youth purposefully interact, as the critical unit of study because it is ubiquitous across out-of-school-time programs and because it is the place where key developmental experiences are intentionally delivered. However, because poin...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - April 8, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Charles Smith, Thomas J. Devaney, Tom Akiva, Samantha A. Sugar Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Assessing after-school settingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
According to previous research, three point-of-service features - strong youth engagement, well-conceived and well-delivered content, and a conducive learning environment - lead to positive impacts in after-school settings, the ultimate gauge of quality. To assess quality at a program's point of service, researchers and program administrators should measure indicators of these three quality features. We argue that youth engagement should be the first of these indicators to be measured because it reflects both the content of program activities and the conditions of the learning environment. Next, content should be assessed ...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - April 8, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Jean Baldwin Grossman, Julie Goldmith, Jessica Sheldon, Amy J. A. Arbreton Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Practitioner expertise: Creating quality within the daily tumble of events in youth settingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines the wide-ranging events, situations, or "dilemmas of practice" that occur in the daily life of youth development programs. Research shows that these varied situations are shaped by the ecology of diverse people and systems that influence the setting. They involve considerations that may entail everything from the psychology of different youth, to how parents from a cultural group think, to the dynamics of government systems. Expert youth practitioners, it is found, are able to identify more considerations than novices in these situations, and they possess a wider repertoire of responses. They also for...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - April 8, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Reed W. Larson, Aimee N. Rickman, Colleen M. Gibbons, Kathrin C. Walker Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Capturing the magic: Assessing the quality of youth mentoring relationshipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mentoring programs pose some special challenges for quality assessment because they operate at two levels: that of the dyadic relationship and that of the program. Fully assessing the quality of youth mentoring relationships requires understanding the characteristics and processes of individual relationships, which are the point of service for mentoring. Yet we also must consider the program components that support their development. A number of factors have been indicated to contribute to quality mentoring relationships, including frequency and consistency of contact, feelings of connection between mentor and protégé, a...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - April 8, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Nancy L. Deutsch, Renée Spencer Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Classroom processes and positive youth development: Conceptualizing, measuring, and improving the capacity of interactions between teachers and studentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The National Research Council's (NRC) statement and description of features of settings that have value for positive youth development have been of great importance in shifting discourse toward creating programs that capitalize on youth motivations toward competence and connections with others. This assets-based approach to promote development is consistent with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) framework for measuring and improving the quality of teacher-student interactions in classroom settings. This chapter highlights the similarities between the CLASS and NRC systems and describes the CLASS as a tool for...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - April 8, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Robert C. Pianta, Bridget K. Hamre Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Using instructional logs to identify quality in educational settingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of two common approaches to studying these processes - direct classroom observation and annual surveys of teachers - and then describes the ways in which instructional logs can be used to overcome some of the limitations of these two approaches when gathering data on curriculum content and coverage. Classroom observations are expensive, require extensive training of raters to ensure consistency in the observations, and because of their expense generally cannot be conducted frequently enough to enable the researcher to generalize observational findings to the entire school...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - April 8, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Brian Rowan, Robin Jacob, Richard Correnti Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - April 8, 2009 Category: Child Development Tags: Executive Summary Source Type: journals

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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - March 1, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Nicole Yohalem, Robert C. Granger, Karen J. Pittman Tags: Issue Editors' Notes Source Type: journals

Future systemic transformationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This final article addresses the need to create further evidence that the integration of student support and afterschool programming enhances student learning and thriving inside and outside schools. Many models are being put forward to address student support, but research findings on their effectiveness have been surprisingly mixed and designs have often been flawed. When interventions are tied to classrooms and support students, teachers, and administrators, an increase in effectiveness can be expected as compared to a wraparound model that leaves the classroom and much of the school day as the sole domain of teachers. ...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Gil G. Noam, Tina Malti Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Program evaluation: Relationships as key to student developmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article describes the quality of RALLY implementation and selected student outcomes of an exemplary RALLY program at an urban middle school. The findings showed effects on students' resiliency as well as academic success, as indicated by student, practitioner, and teacher reports. The practitioners and teachers also reported a decrease in students' behavioral problems. Relationships to practitioners and a developmental orientation proved to be of key significance for changes in students' resiliency and academic outcomes. (Source: New Directions for Youth Development)
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Tina Malti, Sarah E. O. Schwartz, Cindy H. Liu, Gil G. Noam Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Holistic student assessmentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An assessment from a holistic perspective considers the overall well-being of the adolescent and seeks to understand the adolescent's development and resiliency in relation to social relationships and their context and risks, given the association between these factors and the goal to promote each area. It is recommended that measures in the assessment obtain information from each of these factors from paper-and-pencil questionnaires, to more qualitative means such as forging relationship with practitioners. Ideally, an assessment should be easily administered by youth workers such as practitioners. A successful assessment...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Cindy H. Liu, Tina Malti, Gil G. Noam Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Creating youth leaders: Community supportsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In order to maximize the effectiveness of prevention and intervention efforts with youth and address the needs of the whole student, it is necessary to work not only directly with youth, but also to partner with other key adults in a young person's life: parents and guardians, teachers, after-school staff, and clinicians. Inherent in RALLY's philosophy is a dual strategy of working intensively with students and teachers in the school while creating partnerships that bring students' families and a network of community agencies into the school as well. These partnerships bring important resources to school communities and cr...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Adina Davidson, Sarah E. O. Schwartz, Gil G. Noam Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Reinventing clinical roles and space at schoolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores the challenges, strategies, and benefits of implementing a fluid range of formal and informal clinical interventions within RALLY's nonstigmatizing, developmental, and inclusive approach. Balancing insurance company demands with students' nonbillable needs requires diverse funding streams and responsive programming. Creative use of space, commitment to relationships, and flexibility of roles form the foundation of this approach. Through case studies, the author examines practical and creative applications of developmental theories adaptable to individual students' unique needs. The author concludes wi...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Sarah Bernhardt Petersen Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Transferring knowledge and experience: Training and supervisionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors describe practitioners' professional development, the challenges and dilemmas that they confront, and the support they receive in their work. They focus on examples of supervision sessions and describe typical dilemmas and solutions that come up during these sessions. These examples reflect four main themes that were identified as receiving much attention from practitioners over the years: boundaries and role definitions; relationships with students, teachers, and parents; extent of responsibility; and professional questions. Finally, the authors present an interview with a RALLY supervisor that illustrates typ...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Yaacov B. Yablon, Gil G. Noam Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

A new developmentalist role: Connecting youth development, mental health, and educationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The RALLY practitioner implements RALLY's prevention and intervention strategies, working with all of the students in a class to deliver nonstigmatizing, developmentally based services. The practitioner model is based on the philosophy that relationships are key to allowing students to achieve their full health and academic potential. RALLY practitioners work within the classroom individually, in small groups, and in after-school time. In all of these contexts, RALLY practitioners focus on four major functions: (1) building strong relationships with students, (2) providing developmental and academic support, (3) referring ...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Sarah E. O. Schwartz, Sarah Bernhardt Petersen Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Responding to the crisis: RALLY's developmental and relational approachEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors introduce the RALLY (Responsive Advocacy for Life and Learning in Youth) approach. RALLY is a school- and afterschool-based approach addressing academic success, youth development, and mental health for youth. Based on developmental and relational principles, RALLY's main goals are to promote students' resiliency, development, and academic functioning, as well as to reduce the typical adolescent's risks. By implementing a new professional role of RALLY practitioners, who are developmental specialists and interconnect the different social worlds of students, RALLY creates the resources to provide social opportun...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Gil G. Noam, Tina Malti Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

The hidden crisis in mental health and education: The gap between student needs and existing supportsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors provide a selected review of mental health and educational concerns evident in U.S. middle schools and describes promising and important strategies to ameliorate the high rates of students with mental health and academic difficulties. Despite some promising and important strategies, service systems are fragmented, and comprehensive systems of supports are still in development. Furthermore, there remains a lack of integrated developmental considerations in practice. The RALLY approach systematically introduces development and caring adult relationships into preventive practice and combines mental health, educati...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Tina Malti, Gil G. Noam Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - January 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Tags: Executive Summary Source Type: journals

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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - December 1, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Tina Malti, Gil G. Noam Tags: Issue Editors' Notes Source Type: journals

The role of social work in the context of social disintegration and violenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Violence and the violence discourse are very similar from country to country: focus on youth, preponderance of males among perpetrators and victims, disproportionate involvement of migrants and indigenous people, greater prevalence with socioeconomic disadvantage and low education, and the impact of underlying factors such as political disintegration, exclusion from the consumer lifestyle, and inadequacies of social institutions. In social disintegration theory, the basic explanatory backdrop is the dynamic relationship of integration and disintegration between and within the different spheres: individual and functional sy...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Kurt Möller Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Right-wing extremist violence among adolescents in GermanyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents a five-stage process model that portrays the underlying preconditions for acts of right-wing extremist violence, the contexts in which such violence takes place, and the factors that cause it to escalate. This structural model is used to outline central empirical findings of recent German quantitative and especially qualitative studies about right-wing extremist violent offenders. For analytical reasons, the basic elements of the process model (socialization, organization, legitimation, interaction, and escalation) are treated separately. The authors also examine right-wing extremist violence from a d...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Peter Sitzer, Wilhelm Heitmeyer Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Disintegration and violence among migrants in germany: Turkish and russian youths versus german youthsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article investigates the causes for the different levels of violent behavior among juvenile Russian and Turkish immigrants in comparison to German youths. On the basis of a large-scale school survey with 14,301 respondents, the authors examine the causes for their high level of violent behavior compared to German adolescents. The theoretical basis is a combination of disintegration and socialization theory, as well as additional factors that are discussed as causes of violence in several theoretical approaches.In the empirical part of the article, the authors provide a systematic description of sources and levels of d...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Dirk Baier, Christian Pfeiffer Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Social identity and violence among immigrant adolescentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Whereas traditional criminological theories treat juvenile delinquency largely as a reactive and expressive behavior that only seldom leads to specialized criminal offending or a criminal career, this article proposes an alternative classification of offenses that accounts for the difference between youthful reactive conduct and specialized criminality. It examines the effect of immigration on delinquency among juvenile Russians in Israel. In contrast to previous work that has examined the criminogenic effect of immigration without differentiating specific types of delinquency, this study investigates the immigration effec...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Gustavo S. Mesch, Hagit Turjeman, Gideon Fishman Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Recognition denial, need for autonomy, and youth violenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article focuses on the role of adolescent autonomy needs in the development of youth violence, drawing on the insights of recognition theory and suggesting that the origins of an exaggerated need for autonomy can be found in the experience of recognition denial. Data from a large sample of male adolescents are used to test this hypothesis. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis, showing that perceived recognition denial (including the perception that one is treated as an inferior) contributes to a strong need for autonomy. Both are associated with elevated levels of violent behavior. The author closes with a ...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Timothy Brezina Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Violence in the Brazilian favelas and the role of the policeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Institutions should normally have an integrative influence. The family, for example, has the task of protecting and giving socio-emotional support to children, and schools should prepare young people for their future. Ideally the common goal of all of society's institutions is to secure the integration of youth and prevent or intervene against deviant behavior. But sometimes institutions provoke or even cause juvenile delinquency. The article discusses institutional influences and the role of the police in the criminal and violent situation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.Starting with an overview of the origins and the d...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Clarissa Huguet, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Fears of violence among English young people: Disintegration theory and British social policyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Young people are not only the perpetrators of violence; they are also the victims of violent acts. This leads to the question of how young people handle potential risk and how they can reduce the danger of becoming victims. The article stresses the topic of juvenile experience and fear of violence. Starting with a description of the nature of social disintegration in the north of England and the social consequences of social change at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the author focuses on the experience of young people who are affected by changes in social policies, such as the governmental response to antisocial...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Tom Cockburn Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

The French republican model of integration: The theory of cohesion and the practice of exclusionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What are the explaining factors for the wave of riots in France in November 2005? In providing some answers, this article begins by examining the practical usefulness of the French republican model of integration for social cohesion, highlighting the way its negation of other criteria, such as ethnicity, race, or religion, limit this national conception of citizenship and emphasizing these excluded factors as one of the main causes of frustration and resentment among migrant groups in France.The author compares these riots to the student movements in spring 2006 and shows some similarities as well as important differences ...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Marco Oberti Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Violence in street culture: Cross-cultural comparison of youth groups and criminal gangsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article focuses on the role of public space, starting with a comparison of the meaning of deviant behavior and crime in street culture in Brazil, Russia, and Germany. Focusing on street culture norms and their relevance for youth groups in everyday life, the author shows that there are worldwide similarities, and these are most likely to be seen in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The article deals not only with the question of how people act in conflicts but also focuses on a social order in which the reputation of men is based mainly on questions of masculinity, honor, and power expressed through aggressive behavior. Th...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Steffen Zdun Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Disintegration, recognition, and violence: A theoretical perspectiveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents a relatively new theoretical approach combining different levels and focusing on three dimensions associated with specific kinds of recognition: social-structural, institutional, and socioemotional. The social-structural dimension refers to access to the functional systems of society and the accompanying recognition of position, status, and so on. The institutional dimension concentrates on the opportunity to participate in public affairs with the aim of getting moral recognition. The socioemotional dimension emphasizes the quantity and quality of integration in and social support from families, frien...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Reimund Anhut Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Youth and violence: Phenomena and international dataEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article gives an overview of the international development and the actual situation of socially harmful behavior among youths - both fatal violence (homicide) and nonfatal violence (such as bullying, fighting, and carrying weapons). The author shows that different kinds of youth violence represent social problems in every society. The data show that youths are not only perpetrators but also the group with the highest risk of becoming victims of violence. Furthermore, the data from around the world show that their vulnerability is not limited to this sphere. It arises also from their social conditions, especially their...
Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Sandra Legge Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

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Source: New Directions for Youth Development - October 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Tags: Executive Summary Source Type: journals