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Children behaving badly: peer violence between children and young people
- Authors:
- BARTER Christine, BERRIDGE David, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book comprises a collection of contributions from different authors which together address the complexity of peer violence from a range of disciplines and perspectives. The book spans the childhood spectrum of peer violence from early childhood to late adolescence. It is divided into 4 parts: peer violence in different contexts; different forms of peer violence; understanding peer violence; and responding to peer violence. The 4 parts together provide a progression though divergent topics including nurseries, racist murders, knife crime, teenage partner violence, children in care, and gangs, and address different issues of diversity, including racism, gender, and homophobia. The concluding chapter brings together the views expressed throughout the book. The book recognises that the problems of peer violence are likely to have been distorted, not least by the media, and stresses the importance of seeing peer violence as related to a wider set of problems. It aims to challenge many populist and damaging representations of youth violence and the associated narratives of modern youth as essentially 'evil'.