Violent Children and Adolescents: Asking the Question Why?ISBN: 978-1-86156-125-1
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250 pages
August 2000
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Acknowledgements ix
List of Contributors xi
Prologue xv
Gwyneth Boswell
Chapter 1 Children who kill: trends, reasons, and procedures 1
Paul Cavadino and Rob Allen
Chapter 2 Adolescent violence: findings and implications from the Cambridge study 19
David P. Farrington
Chapter 3 Understanding and treating adolescent firesetters 36
Kevin Epps and Clive R. Hollin
Chapter 4 The antecendents of young male sex offenders 56
Victoria Harris and Carl Staunton
Chapter 5 The link between childhood trauma and later violent offending: a case study 71
Paul Renn
Chapter 6 Self-directed violence in adolescence: a psychotherapeutic perspective 91
Cairns Clery
Chapter 7 Violent adolescent females offenders 104
Susan Bailey
Chapter 8 Violent young people detained in a maximum security psychiatric hospital 121
Deborah Richards and Andrew Smith
Chapter 9 Aggressive and bullying behavior in children and adolescents 138
Helen Cowie
Chapter 10 The influence of film and video on young people and violence 151
Kevin Browne and Amanda Pennell
Chapter 11 Comparing studies of youth and violence: towards an integrated approach 169
Stephen Parvez Rashid
Chapter 12 Bulgar and beyond: asking the question ‘why’? 183
David James Smith
Epilogue 196
Gwyneth Boswell
References and citation index 199
Subject Index 227