violence in children

Explores the issues surrounding the treatment and actions of violent children, with primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives, extensive bibliographies, and annotated lists of relevant organizations.

Explores the circumstances which led fourteen-year-old Johnnie Jordan to murder his elderly foster care mother, arguing that his life in the foster care system left him feeling unloved and unwanted and forcing him to take desperate measures.

An examination of antisocial youth, discussing the origins of psychopathy, looking at incidences of psychopathic tendencies in children as young as three, exploring the debate between nurture and nature, and suggesting solutions to dealing with homicidal children.

A personal account of inner-city violence and its effect on children.

Explores a variety of crimes against children and discusses how child abuse and neglect is a generational problem, which leads to more violence and abuse once the abused child grows up.

Uses in-depth case studies of thirteen killers aged between ten and seventeen to explore the reasons some children choose to kill.

Examines the state of violence in American schools at the dawn of the twenty-first century and describes different methods for making and keeping schools safer places.

A graphic novel that chronicles the childhood of Geoffrey Canada, describing how he learned to survive on the violent streets of the South Bronx.

Jareth Gardner, a seventeen-year-old with an abusive, alcoholic mother, a dying half-brother, and an unknown father, believes he can handle all his problems until a shocking act of violence makes him realize he is out of control.

Examines the various theories about the rising rate of childhood violence, focusing on how bad parenting advice has led to the rise of violence in the past thirty-five years, and offers suggestions on how parents can help their children avoid violence.