Resources for Urban Youth Workers

Engel, Len. (May 2008) “Promoting Public Safety Through Successful Community Tansition.” Crime and Justice Institute. 

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 “The so-called Boston Miracle,” CYS, July 2010

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 Phillipe Bourgois. “In Search of Respect.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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 Venkatesh, Sudhir . "Gang Leader For a Day." New York: Penguin Books, 2008.

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Geoffrey Canada (1995) “Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America.” Beacon Press: Boston, 179pp. 

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 James Garbarino, "Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them." New York: The Free Press, 1999. 

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 Lawrence Harmon, “True toll of violence in Boston,” The Boston Globe, 19Jun’10, A13.

 John Rich (2009) Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 

Dean Borgman, “Urban Violence,” Ch. 11 in Hear My Story: Understanding the Cries of Urban Youth, Hendrickson Publishers, 2003; pp. 205-228.

How to help students develop an awareness of the negative socialization that can result from watching excessive television violence.

Zoglin,R. (1996, February 19). "V-chips ahoy." Time. pp. 58-61.

Abbott, W. (1994, June). "To reduce TV violence." Christian Social Action, pp. 4-7.

Youngs Jr., G.A., Rathge, R., Mullis, R., & Mullis, A. (1990, Summer). Adolescent stress and self-esteem. Adolescence, 25 (98), 333.

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