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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810877203321

Titolo

Handbook of children, culture, and violence / / edited by Nancy E. Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer, Robin Fretwell Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c2006

ISBN

1-5443-4028-1

1-78268-807-2

1-4129-7336-8

1-4129-7606-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (l, 475 p.) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

DowdNancy E. <1949->

SingerDorothy G

WilsonRobin Fretwell

Disciplina

362.76

Soggetti

Children and violence

Children - Crimes against

Violence in children

Violence in popular culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Nancy E. Dowd -- Prologue: Developmental variations among children and adolescents--an overview of the research and policy implications / Dorothy G. Singer -- Child witnessing of domestic violence / Naomi Cahn -- Domestic violence and child protection: confronting the dilemmas in moving from family court to dependency court / Thomas D. Lyon and Mindy B. Mechanic -- Sexually predatory parents and the children in their care: remove the threat, not the child / Robin Fretwell Wilson -- Exposure to pornography as a cause of child sexual victimization / Diana E. H. Russell and Natalie J. Purcell -- Statutory rape: an empirical examination of claims of "overreaction" / Ross E. Cheit and Laura Braslow -- Mitigating the impact of publicity on child crime victims and witnesses / Charles Putnam and David Finkelhor -- The violent shadows of children's culture / John Cech -- A preliminary demography of television violence / Nancy Signorelli -- Protecting children's welfare in an anxiety-producing media



environment / Joanna Cantor -- The impact of violent music on youth / Barbara J. Wilson and Nicole Martins -- How real is the problem of TV violence? Research and policy perspectives / Dale Kunkel and Lara Zwarun -- Violent video games: effects on youth and public policy implications / Douglas A. Gentile and Craig A. Anderson -- Positive features of video games / Laurie N. Taylor -- Children, adolescents, and the culture of online hate / Brendesha Tynes -- Constitutional obstacles to regulating violence in the media / Catherine J. Ross -- Peer victimization: the nature and prevalence of bullying among children and youth / Susan P. Limber -- Bullying and violence in American schools / Elen DeLara -- Judging juvenile responsibility: a social ecological perspective / Mark R. Fondacaro and Lauren G. Fasig -- Adult punishment for juvenile offenders: does it reduce crime? / Richard E. Redding -- Psychopathy assessment and juvenile justice mental health evaluations / Matthew Owen Howard, Michael K. Dayton, Kirk A. Foster, Michael G. Vaughn, and John L. Zelner -- Cleaning up toxic violence: an ecogenerist paradigm / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse.

Sommario/riassunto

This handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of childhood violence that considers children as both consumers and perpetrators of violence, as well as victims of it.