Hopelessness and Violence Among Inner-City Youths
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Maternal and Child Health Journal
- Vol. 5 (4) , 237-244
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1013028805470
Abstract
Objectives: Ethnographic literature on inner-city life argues that adolescents react to their uncertain (and objectively bleak) future by abandoning hope; this, in turn, leads them to engage in risk...Keywords
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