African American Youth Encounters With Violence
| Autor: | Bambade H. Shakoor, Edwina S. Uehara, Deborah Chalmers, Esther J. Jenkins |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Cultural Studies
African american Secondary education White (horse) Sociology and Political Science 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Criminology Violent crime Mental health Homicide Anthropology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences Social science research Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Cause of death Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Black Studies. 26:768-781 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4566 0021-9347 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002193479602600607 |
| Popis: | Tragically, encountering violence appears almost commonplace among African American youths. Nationally, homicide is the leading cause of death for African Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 years (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1988) and the violent crime victimization rate of African American youths is 20% to 30% higher than that of their White counterparts (Jamison & Flanagan, 1989). Youth encounters with violence are not restricted to perpetration or direct victimization. Data from Detroit (Batchelor & Wicks, 1985) and Los Angeles (Pynoos & Eth, 1985a) suggest that persons 18 years old or younger may be eyewitnesses to between 10% and 20% of homicide incidents reported to police in those cities. Witnessing violence, especially when perpetrated against familiar persons, is increasingly characterized as an indirect form of victimization, associated not only with increased aggres |
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