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(More customer reviews)I agree that this is a very timely and important book and it raises a lot of issues that other books on this topic ignore. But it is not always easy to read. I was assigned this book for an undergraduate college course and I did find a couple of the chapters, especially "Rated CV for Cool Violence" and "Masculinity Matters" and the beginning part of "The Psychology of Violence" a bit difficult to read because they were more technical than some ofthe others. Having a professor to help us understand it and discuss it in class was helpful, as were many of the explanatory definitions and footnotes. Some of what you learn in this book is also very upsetting, especially Spina's comparisons of statistical reports and the horrors described by Freire and Macedo, but if you are upset by it, the book has started to do what the authors set out to do. If you are interested in teaching or in learning about school violence, you should read several books with different viewpoints on the topic but this should definitely be one of them. It is, for the most part, a "student-friendly" book and one of two I had to read last semester that I am not likely to re-sell to the bookstore any time soon.
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Many of our countryOs children face daily a threat to their personal safety and well-being. As school boards, law enforcement officials, and policymakers continue to look for ways to stop youth violence in urban and suburban schools, not enough attention is paid to eradicating the socioeconomic and cultural conditions that give rise to these acts. In this timely and thought-provoking collection, seasoned educators and cultural theorists emphasize this connection between youth violence and the realities faced by many children--poverty, racism, unequal opportunity, and the mediaOs glorification of violence.
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