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Author Davis, Nanette J.

Title Youth crisis : growing up in the high-risk society / Nanette J. Davis ; foreword by David Matza
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999

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Description xiv, 373 ; 23 cm
Contents Foreword / David Matza -- Ch. 1. "Don't Tell Us about It" - The Social Condition of Youth -- Ch. 2. "It Isn't Easy Being Young": Youth and the Risk Society -- Ch. 3. Genealogy of Childhood -- Ch. 4. Schooling in an Unjust Society -- Ch. 5. Endangered Youth -- Ch. 6. The Descent into Homelessness -- Ch. 7. Youth, Addiction, and Control -- Ch. 8. Youth in the War Zone -- Ch. 9. The Gang as Pseudo Community -- Ch. 10. Race Matters: The Case of African American Youth -- Ch. 11. Reconstructing Justice: Toward a Healing Paradigm for Youth -- App. Youth Bill of Rights
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Youth -- Social conditions.
Juvenile delinquency -- Prevention.
LC no. 98024558
ISBN 0275959392
0275964434