Losing generations : adolescents in high-risk settings / Panel on High-Risk Youth, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

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National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on High-Risk Youth

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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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0585037582
9780585037585
9780309048286
0309048281

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HV1421 .L67 1993eb

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Contents:

Adolescents at risk -- Earnings and employment -- Families -- Neighborhoods -- Health and health care -- Academic schooling -- From school to work -- Juvenile and criminal justice -- Adolescents in the child welfare system -- Good practice : community-based interventions and services -- Conclusions and research directions.

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Abstract: For millions of adolescents ... the context of their lives is one of meager and uncertain income, dilapidated neighborhoods, inadequate schools, dangerous streets, and violent homes. /// Such environments not only lack the basic support systems [but] are actually dangerous and destructive to young people growing up in them. This volume breaks new ground by exploring these [disadvantaged] settings in which American youth are expected to mature to responsible adulthood. To focus on settings is to recognize that context has a profound influence on the shape of a young person's entire life as well as the day-to-day decisions that result in high-risk behavior. This book recognizes that there are roadblocks that even the most energetic youth cannot overcome. If we expect to help them, we must take a hard look at the policies that--intentionally or unintentionally--create the threatening environments in which these young people are growing up. This volume illuminates the challenging policy decisions that must be made. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).

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For millions of adolescents ... the context of their lives is one of meager and uncertain income, dilapidated neighborhoods, inadequate schools, dangerous streets, and violent homes. /// Such environments not only lack the basic support systems [but] are actually dangerous and destructive to young people growing up in them. This volume breaks new ground by exploring these [disadvantaged] settings in which American youth are expected to mature to responsible adulthood. To focus on settings is to recognize that context has a profound influence on the shape of a young person's entire life as well as the day-to-day decisions that result in high-risk behavior. This book recognizes that there are roadblocks that even the most energetic youth cannot overcome. If we expect to help them, we must take a hard look at the policies that--intentionally or unintentionally--create the threatening environments in which these young people are growing up. This volume illuminates the challenging policy decisions that must be made. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).

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