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Legge, Sandra – New Directions for Youth Development, 2008
The topic of youth, violence, and disintegration needs addressing because young women and men are the world's greatest capital. They have the energy, talent, and creativity for building a future. But this group also suffers grave vulnerabilities. The time of adolescence includes important and difficult periods of life (for example, becoming more…
Descriptors: Violence, Social Integration, Labor Market, Social Problems
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Pino, Angel – Thresholds in Education, 1995
The causes of violence in schools, as in society, are multiple and complex; they are rooted in the intolerable economic and social conditions created by Brazil's development model, characterized by unequal wealth distribution, widespread poverty, and an exclusive society. By mirroring this exclusionary process, the educational system is inherently…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure