Children Behaving Badly? Peer Violence Between Children and Young People

by Barter, Christine; Berridge, David

• ISBN13: 9780470727058
• ISBN10: 0470727055
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-04
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Children Behaving Badly? is the first publication to directly address the complexity of peer violence from a range of disciplines and perspectives. This book provides important insights into theoretical understanding of the issue and produces significant and far-reaching implications for policy and practice developments. Based on up-to-date research evidence, this book includes some unpublished findings from recognized experts in multidisciplinary fields. The book also challenges many populist and damaging representations of youth violence and the associated narratives of modern youth as essentially evil.

Author Biography

Christine Barter is an NSPCC Senior Research Fellow at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Previously she was an NSPCC Senior Research Fellow with the University of Bedfordshire. She has published widely on a range of children's welfare issues. David Berridge is Professor of Child and Family Welfare and Head of the Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. David has been a researcher for 25 years and was awarded an OBE in January 2005 for services to children.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Peer violence in different contexts

Understanding dimensions of 'peer violence' in preschool settings: An exploration of key issues and questions

Understanding why children and young people engage in bullying at school

Sibling abuse and bullying in childhood and adolescence: Knowns and unknowns

Young people, gangs and street-based violence

Peer violence in provision for children in care

Different forms of peer violence

Young men, violence and racism

Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships: A thoroughly gendered affair

Children and young people with harmful sexual behaviours

Homophobia and peer violence

Understanding peer violence

Impact of child maltreatment and domestic violence

Media representations of youth violence

Boys, girls and performing normative violence in schools: A gendered critique of bully discourses

Responding to peer violence

Bullets, blades and mean streets: Youth violence and criminal justice failure

Delivering preventive programmes in schools: Identifying gender issues

Conclusion

Index

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