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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Youth violence"”.
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Teens in Transition: Evaluating a Youth Violence Intervention Program
… program designed for 40 gang-affiliated youths identified as being high risk for violence through the local focused deterrence implementation. This research paper will provide a brief overview of the programs implementation and a short-term impact analysis. To assess implementation, 120 …
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Can Representativeness Decrease Youth Violence in Juvenile Detention Facilities?
… whether they develop attitudes toward reducing youth violence. Considerably more researchers conduct studies in adult prisons than juvenile correctional facilities, which focus on rehabilitation for youth. Therefore, this study further examines youth correctional staff attitudes toward inmates. …
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Creating shared meaning: Narratives of youth violence, mindfulness, and counselling psychology
This qualitative research study used a narrative inquiry approach to explore how young people who have engaged in violent and antisocial acts understand and make sense of this behaviour, and how these understandings relate to their views of self and the worlds they live in. Narrative interviews …
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SCHOOL SIZE AND YOUTH VIOLENCE: POTENTIAL MEDIATING AND MODERATING ROLE OF SCHOOL CONNECTEDNESS
Youth violence continues to be considered a public health concern in the United States. Extant research indicates school size is positively associated with youth violence. School connectedness (i.e., the quality of perceived relationships between students and school personnel) has been found to be …
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An exploration of ‘Gurans' phenomena: The face of Youth Violence in Khayelitsha Township
Youth violence has been troubling the South African society ever since the country's transition to democracy in 1994. Although the problem has been a countrywide phenomenon, certain provinces and cities, predominantly black inhabited townships in the City of Cape Town, have been most afflicted by …
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Emergency medicine registrars' attitudes towards youth violence prevention interventions in Cape Town emergency centres
… The City of Cape Town, South Africa, has a large youth violence problem with the highest percentage of non-natural deaths per age group in Cape Town occurring between 15 and 24 years of age. Many authorities suggest that youth violence is preventable and there is a fast growing international …
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The Analysis of Extracurricular Activities and Parental Monitoring and Their Relationship to Youth Violence
… and parental monitoring relate to rural youth violence. Gender differences were examined across all of the study variables. Self-report data were collected from 235 teenagers from a rural, ethnically diverse, Virginia community. Correlations revealed a significant inverse relationship …
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Measuring pathways to youth violence and the possible effects of a sports-based development intervention on youth in South Africa
… from longitudinal-experimental studies of youth violence and intervention in the global North, this study was designed as an ambitious two-site, large-n (n=700), longitudinal (3 waves over 24 months) quasi-experimental panel study to explore pathways to violent behaviour and …
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Examining a Community Action Planning Process to Mobilize a Coalition to Prevent Youth Violence: A Case Study of the ThrYve Initiative
… the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, youth homicide is the third leading cause of death for all youth ages 10 to 24 and the leading cause of death for Black youth. Comprehensive community approaches may address risk factors across socio-ecological levels to prevent youth violence. …
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Youth Experiences of Organized Activities and Violence: Trends and Interrelationships
Organized youth activities contribute to positive development by engaging with a favorable and supervised social environment. This dissertation research explored the influence of organized youth activities such as school-based, community-based, and faith-based activities on youth violence such as …
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School Directors’ Perspectives of Physical Education in El Salvador: A Qualitative Case Study
Youth violence is El Salvador’s most imperative social, economic and health problem today. In an attempt to contribute to youth violence prevention in the country, humanistic physical education has been implemented within schools. Using case study methodology, this study examines twelve Salvadoran …
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Exploring violence through the narratives of youth in Kenyan secondary schools: Implications for reconceptualising peacebuilding
… young people this research explores the rise in youth violence in Kenya¿s secondary school system and wider society and the potential for peacebuilding to address youth violence. Of particular concern is the gradual change in the profiles, patterns and intensity of the conflict, as evidenced by …
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Substance abuse programs that reduce violence in a youth population : systematic review
… dissertation examines the existing evidence for youth violence interventions involving substance abuse intervention programs. Part A is the review protocol which outlines the background and process of the review. Search strategies combined related terms for youth, violence and a broad combination …
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Moderating Variables in the Treatment Effects of Second Step
<p>Youth violence is a problem which has been studied through theoretical frameworks based on social ecological models of development. This has coincided with the development of programs intended to prevent and reduce the occurrence of youth violence and its negative effects. One approach to …
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Doctoral thesis recital (composition)
… policy -- Trained to hate: Child soldiers and youth violence in the Angolan civil war -- Dr. Catharine H. Echols, associate professor of psychology -- Developing a concept of enemy -- Jermaine Thibodeaux, A.B. Cornell University -- What these youthful eyes have seen: Children's recollections of …
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Organizational Capacity to Absorb External Knowledge: An Exploratory Study of Public and Nonprofit Decision Makers' Perceptions of Impediments and Facilitators
Research indicates that many youth-serving agencies do not adopt evidence-based innovations in the field of youth violence prevention. This qualitative study was designed to explore a sample of community-based decision makers’ perceptions of why innovative, evidence-based programs and practices for …
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Violence Prevention Programming in Secondary Public Schools in Virginia
Across the United States violent behavior among youth, particularly adolescents, ages 10 to 19, is occurring at alarmingly high rates. Current literature and statistical data both concur that homicide is the leading cause of death for this age group. This phenomenon is not the result of a single …
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A sociological analysis o f the recent rise in assaults on young men in Irish society.
… In contrast to the wide scale research on Youth Drug Culture or Youth Delinquency, there are very few studies about the nature and extent of assaults on young men in Ireland. Faced with this problem I set about researching articles and pieces written on Assault, by Journalists such as Kim …
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The therapeutic relationship as a mental health intervention for gang-associated young people: understanding how it is conceptualised by them and the community mentors working with them: a critical discourse analysis
Background: Serious Youth Violence is considered a public health problem in the UK, with those involved experiencing significant mental health problems. Due to accessibility barriers at multiple levels, many of these young people miss opportunities for effective, evidence-based therapeutic …
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Examining the Effects of Victimization on the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Questioning Youth
Youth violence has garnered the attention of researchers and policy makers alike, because of the unique risk factors associated with victimization and the poor physical, mental, and educational outcomes that stem from such experiences. In particular, sexual minority youth--those who identify as …
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