juvenile delinquency

The Baraka School is an experimental institution in Kenya where children live by strict guidelines, yet are given the freedom to grow. Follow 12 out of control boys from the streets of Baltimore as they move into their temporary home, the Baraka School.

This book provides insight and information about youth violence.

Reference handbook provides a survey of the available literature on violent children, explores twenty theories for the rise in youth crime, gives biographical sketches of people working on the issue, and gives a chronology of violent acts by children.

Explores the ghetto of South Central Los Angeles.

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' deaths, and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

Discussion of the results of research into the policies and programs that relate to youth gangs. Looks at the history and experience of being in a gang, and theories of why gangs form and how they can be controlled.

Examines the problem of crime, why people commit crimes, and ways that teens can get involved in crime prevention to make their communities safer.

Examines the causes and manifestations of violence among teenagers in America and discusses possible solutions.

Gang leader Rusty James desperately tries to live up to his brother's reputation in their declining industrial city.