Today's world creates challenges that are overwhelming for so many kids and their families. Living without the necessary supports and sometimes the basics forces kids to go out and seek what they believe they need to survive. Many have become throwaway s and move to the streets and the underbelly of our society. As a society, we often assume that they have behavior disorders or have escaped their homes and just for a thrill. Yet for many of these kids, it is a choice between surviving or being abused, neglected, or killed at the hands of a supposedly trusted adult. This book is a real portrait of their struggles, their challenges, and their victories. Children in Crisis is a resource to build awareness, understanding, and solutions for educators, parents, and anyone working with children and adolescents.

Citing a rise in violent behavior among juvenile girls throughout the past decade, a cultural analysis explains how positive social developments, most importantly an increase in female sports, is encouraging girls to express themselves physically but failing to teach them how to manage violent feelings in appropriate ways. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

In this important new work, two respected criminologists challenge the characterization of the new 'bad girl' arguing that it is only a new attempt to punish girls who are not the stereotypical depiction of good. Through interviews with young women, educators and people in the criminal justice system, Beyond Bad Girls exposes the formal and informal systems of socio-cultural control imposed on girls.

Citing a rise in violent behavior among juvenile girls throughout the past decade, a cultural analysis explains how positive social developments, most importantly an increase in female sports, is encouraging girls to express themselves physically but failing to teach them how to manage violent feelings in appropriate ways. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Implement prevention interventions and policies to curb the cycle of violence in our schools!Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience examines overt and covert violence occurring in the school setting involving students, school personnel, and school policy, and highlights a level of violence that is often hidden, ignored, or subtly tolerated...read more

Debates issues regarding violence in children, including school violence, gun control, zero tolerance, and understanding the causes.

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The best-selling author of Parent Power! and Teen-Proofing explores the current rash of youth violence and aggression in America and offers practical, commonsense advice for parents on how to teach their children manners, characters, responsibility, respect for others, and self-control. (view table of contents)

Product Description: For courses in Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, and other types of juvenile courses in criminal justice programs. This current, practical, fact-based text -for supplemental or primary use - deals with many different aspects of the issues involved in the study of juvenile violence and delinquency...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the origins of violence in children, arguing that psychopathology begins as early as age three, and proposing radical methods of dealing with homicidal youth.

Connects the increase in teen violence to abuse and neglect during the first two years of a child's life.

Product Description: This volume presents a balanced survey of children and violence in the United States―specifically those children who commit acts such as murder, rape, and assault.

Discusses teenage violence, violence in the schools, gangs, and various ways to prevent and control violent behavior in young people (view table of contents)