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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"street youth"”.
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Sheltering street youth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Differential Coercion and Homelessness: a Criminological Approach to Homeless Street Youth in Mexico
… relationship between coercion and crime amongst street youths in Mexico. This research relies on Mark Colvin’s (2000) Differential Coercion Theory (DCT). Through semi-structured interviews with street youths in Mexico City, this research explores: (1) the various personal and structural factors …
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A case study of knowledge translation and the enhanced street youth study in Saskatoon
… health outcomes in Canada, and Saskatoon, is street-involved youth. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to understand how the organizational context of a national surveillance study targeting street-involved youth, the Enhanced Street Youth Study, influences knowledge translation …
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I believe I can fly : from shelter to developmental programme : changing interventions in a residential setting for street youth in Cape Town, South Africa between 1991 and 1999
… of opportunity for effective intervention, street youth are frequently unnoticed by service providers, policy makers and the general public, and therefore their specific needs are unacknowledged. The writer has undertaken an exploratory study, using document analysis and participant …
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Taking It To The Streets: A Comparative Analysis Of Violent Victimization, The Victim-Offender Overlap, And The Victim-Fear Relationship Among School And Street-Involved Youth In Toronto
Research on violent victimization among youth has received a considerable amount of academic attention in recent years; however, this research has typically been conducted separately for conventional populations of school-based youth and at-risk populations of street-involved youth. Although it is …
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Street working girls in Mexico City: pathways to resilience in an adverse world
… 23 adolescent girls working as vendors in the streets and public markets of Mexico City coped with adversity in their lives. The investigation focuses on the girls’ constructed meanings about adversity, their pathways to resilience, and the contextual factors that promoted or hindered their …
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Fact vs. Fiction: Uncovering the Experiences of Homeless/Street Youths' Involvement in Survival Sex
<p>Youth involvement in trading/selling sex has become of concern for policy makers, scholars, and the general public in recent years (Cecchet & Thorburn, 2014; Hossain, et al, 2010; Pub L No. 106-386; Reid & Piquero, 2013; Sapiro, Johnson, Postmus, & Simmel, 2016; Shared Hope International, 2015). …
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Gathering Kilburn: The everyday production of community in a diverse London neighbourhood
… ranges from community cafes, to religious youth groups, to urban ‘gangs’, to government-led urban regeneration projects. Despite the variation in how different individuals imagined ‘community’, there was a shared view of community as a space which facilitated the bridging of difference and …