AMERICA'S CHILDREN:
PROBLEMS AND PROMISES
Violence
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Violence
Smoky Night
by Eve Bunting, David Diaz (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback - 36 pages Reprint edition (April 1999)
Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0152018840
Bad
by Jean Ferris
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover - 192 pages 1 Ed edition (October 1998)
Farrar Straus & Giroux (Juv); ISBN: 0374304793
Buried Onions
by Gary Soto
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover - 160 pages (September 1997)
Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0152013334
Professional Resources Relating to Children and Violence
Hear These Voices : Youth at the Edge of the Millennium
by Anthony Allison
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover - 170 pages (February 1999)
Dutton Books; ISBN: 0525453539
Fist Stick Knife Gun : A Personal History of Violence in America
by Geoffrey Canada
Paperback (April 1996)
Beacon Pr; ISBN: 0807004235
Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (And Parents Sane)
by Gavin De Becker
Hardcover - 336 pages (May 18, 1999)
Dial Pr; ISBN: 0385333099
Kids & Guns (Kids in Crisis)
by Cynthia Dilaura, M.D. Devore, Cynthia D. Devoure
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Library Binding - 39 pages (December 1994)
Abdo & Daughters; ISBN: 1562393219
Violence in American Schools : A New Perspective
by Delbert S. Elliott (Editor), Beatrix A. Hamburg (Editor), Kirk R. Williams (Editor)
Paperback - 400 pages (October 1998)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521644186
Lost Boys : Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
by James Garbarino
Hardcover - 274 pages (May 1999)
Free Press; ISBN: 0684859084
The Healing Power of Play : Working With Abused Children
by Eliana Gil
Paperback - 210 pages (March 1999)
Guilford Press; ISBN: 0898624673
Breaking the Silence : A Guide to Help Children With Complicated Grief :
Suicide, Homicide, Aids, Violence, and Abuse
by Linda Goldman
Paperback (July 1996)
Accelerated Development; ISBN: 1560324341
Violent Children (At Issue (San Diego, Calif.).)
by Bryan J. Grapes (Editor)
Paperback (January 2000)
ISBN: 0737701587
Breaking the Cycle of Violence : Interventions for Bullying and Victimization
by Richard J. Hazler
Paperback (September 1996)
Taylor & Francis; ISBN: 1560325097
Ghosts from the Nursery : Tracing the Roots of Violence
by Robin Karr-Morse, Meredith S. Wiley, T. Berry Brazelton (Introduction)
Hardcover - 256 pages 1 Ed edition (January 1998)
Atlantic Monthly Pr; ISBN: 0871137038
Things Get Hectic : Teens Write About the Violence That Surrounds Them
by Youth Communication, Philip Kay (Editor), Al Desetta (Editor), and Estepa, Andrea Estepa
(Editor)
Paperback - 256 pages (August 1998)
Touchstone Books; ISBN: 0684837544
Savage Spawn : Reflections on Violent Children (Library of Contemporary
Thought (Ballantine Publishing Group))
by Jonathan Kellerman
Paperback - 134 pages 1 Ed edition (June 1999)
Ballantine Books (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0345429397
Teaching Young Children in Violent Times : Building a Peaceable Classroom
by Diane E. Levin
Hardcover (October 1994)
New Society Pub; ISBN: 0865713154
The Boy Who Sat by the Window : Helping Children Cope With Violence
(Small Horizons Series)
by Chris Loftis, Catharine Gallagher (Illustrator)
Paperback (December 1996)
New Horizon Press; ISBN: 0882821474
Breaking the Silence : Art Therapy With Children from Violent Homes
by Cathy A. Malchiodi
Hardcover - 240 pages 2nd Rev edition (November 1997)
Brunner/Mazel; ISBN: 0876308248
Violence and Childhood in the Inner City (Cambridge Criminology Series)
by Joan McCord (Editor)
Paperback (October 1997)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521587204
Children of Violence in America (Ideas in Conflict)
by Gary E. McCuen
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover (March 1995)
Gem Pubns; ISBN: 086596095X
Raising Nonviolent Children in a Violent World : A Family Handbook
by Michael, Phd Obsatz
Paperback - 112 pages (September 1998)
Augsburg Fortress Publications; ISBN: 0806637005
Children in a Violent Society
by Joy D. Osofsky (Editor), Peter Scharf
Paperback - 338 pages (August 1998)
Guilford Press; ISBN: 1572303875
A Child Called 'It' : An Abused Child's Journey from Victim to Victor
by David J. Pelzer, Dave Pelzer
Paperback - 184 pages Reissue edition (October 1995)
Health Communications; ISBN: 1558743669
The Lost Boy : A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
by Dave Pelzer, David J. Pelzer
Paperback - 340 pages Revised edition (August 1997)
Health Communications; ISBN: 1558745157
Children and Violence
by David Reiss (Editor), John E. Richters (Editor), Marian
Radke-Yarrow (Editor)
Paperback - 136 pages (April 1993)
Guilford Press; ISBN: 0898625882
Kids and Guns : The History, the Present, the Dangers, and the Remedies
by Ted Schwarz
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback - 128 pages (September 1999)
Franklin Watts; ISBN: 0531164403
American Youth Violence (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
by Franklin E. Zimring
Hardcover - 256 pages (December 1998)
Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0195121457
Websites Relating to Children and Violence
Prevent Child Abuse America
Children's Safety Network: National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center: A project of Education Development Center, Inc.
Children's Safety Network: National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center
http://www.policy.com/issuewk/98/0525/index.html
ISSUE OF THE WEEK: GUN VIOLENCE AND CHILDREN MAY 25 - 31, 1998
Despite nationwide gun-free school laws that prohibit
possession of a firearm on or near the property of a public or private school, students are bringing guns to
school and using them against their fellow students and teachers with increasing frequency.
http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/kidcnt/reports/violence/
NO SAFE PLACE KIDS COUNT Report on Children and Violence
http://www.lgcms.com.au/kids&dv.htm
Children and Young People Who Have Lived With
Domestic Violence: Best Practice Intervention
http://www.bftpolice.com/coda/
CITIZENS OPPOSED TO DOMESTIC ABUSE: CODA Home Page
http://www.coventry.gov.uk/social/child/csp1997/dv.htm
CHILDREN LIVING IN HOUSEHOLDS WHERE
THERE IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FUND) is a national non-profit organization that focuses on domestic violence
education, prevention and public policy reform.
http://www.nhvbc.com/nhwomen/fact3.htm
FACT SHEET ON ... The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/crd/famviol/fv04e/fv04e.htm
The Impact of Experiencing and Witnessing Family Violence during Childhood:
Child and Adult Behavioural Outcomes
http://www.dvsheltertour.org/
What is domestic violence? Take the QUIZ and see how much you know
http://www.cfchildren.org/Stats.html
United States Statistics: Violence Related Statistics
http://www.parenting.sa.gov.au/cgi_bin/display.pl/peg29.html
Bullying is the deliberate desire to hurt, threaten or frighten someone with words or actions by
one or more people and can vary in the degree of severity.
http://www.abcparenting.com/abcarticles.cfm?n=5&t=1
Children and TV Violence: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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