Youth Violence, Resilience, and Rehabilitation (Criminal Justice (Lfb Scholarly Publishing Llc).)

Little research has focused on the termination of assaultive behavior among high-risk children and youth, and on the phenomenology of the young person’s own experience. Over a period of nine years Hoffman worked with 20 young participants now between the ages of 20 and 32, jointly exploring their individual and collective pathways out of serious and chronic violence. The study contributes to a common theory of change and rehabilitation for young people who have been seriously violence involved and impacted by trauma. TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION......Page 10 Youth Violence in the United States......Page 14 U.S. Youth Violence in Comparative Perspective......Page 20 Youth Violence Prevention in Two Communities: Research Project History......Page 22 Definition of Terms......Page 26 The Emergence of Youth Violence as a Public Health Issue......Page 30 CHAPTER 4: STUDY METHODS......Page 46 Participant Issues......Page 48 Ethnographical Research Designs......Page 49 Participatory Research Design......Page 54 Participants as Research Collaborators......Page 55 Handling of the "Self"......Page 57 Data Collection......Page 58 Data Analysis......Page 59 Pilot Study......Page 60 Pilot Interview Themes......Page 61 Study Limitations......Page 64 CHAPTER 5: TRAUMA, RESILIENCY AND REHABILITATION......Page 66 CHAPTER 6: THE PROCESS OF CHANGE......Page 114 Contributors to Termination......Page 115 The Process of Change......Page 175 We are not 'Lost': The Process of Transformation, Violence Prevention, and Intervention Practice and Theory......Page 193 CHAPTER 7: HEALTH, HOSPITALS, AND NONVIOLENT DEVELOPMENT......Page 208 We Just Beat Around the Bush Right Now: Towards a Model Approach......Page 209 Dealing With the Larger Picture: Managed Care......Page 238 Giving Back to the Community: Youth as Community Change Agents......Page 250 Looking Ahead: Expanding the Universe of Health......Page 267 Policy Implications: Addressing Barriers to Health......Page 270 Addressing Barriers to Education and Preparation for Employment......Page 273 Dealing with Guns in the Environment......Page 275 Making a Connection Between Health and Justice......Page 276 Study Significance......Page 284 Implications for Further Research......Page 286 Investigating Change and Resiliency Among Violence-Impacted Youth......Page 287 Epilogue......Page 292 ENDNOTES......Page 294 REFERENCES......Page 296 APPENDIX A: INFORMED CONSENT FORM......Page 314 R......Page 316 X......Page 317 The result of a six-year, participatory research project conducted with 20 young people who had past involvement in assaultive violence, this work investigates the factors that contribute to or detract from stopping violence and the implications of a traumatic event for revisiting past behavior. It investigates the experiences of the young people from Boston and Los Angeles through an inductive examination of the youth's own words. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) When I woke up from being shot, I couldn't talk, I couldn't move, I couldn't eat, and I couldn't breathe without the help of a machine. Joan Serra Hoffman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 287-304) And Index.