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(Clinical Practice.) Edited by Daniel J. Flannery and C. Ronald Huff. 322 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1998. $48.50. ISBN 0-88048-809-3.

Youth Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Social Policy expands the traditional criminologic view of youth violence to include some perspectives on prevention but, for the most part, stays rather close to conventional views of adolescent delinquency.

Forms of behavior and activities that traditionally have been regarded as criminal are at the core of each chapter. These activities are mostly those of boys. With one notable exception (the chapter by Chesney-Lind and Brown), violence by and toward adolescent girls is largely ignored. With straightforward honesty, Gorman-Smith and Avery note that the information they present is based on research on male delinquents . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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