Children Behaving Badly?

Peer Violence Between Children and Young People

Christine Barter (NSPCC Research Fellow), David Berridge (Professor)

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English

Wiley-Blackwell
17 December 2010

Violence in society; Age groups: children; Bullying & anti-bullying strategies; Chemistry

Series: Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series

Children Behaving Badly? Violence between children is a controversial and frequently misunderstood issue, one that has seen media-fuelled moral panic come to dominate public perceptions and debate. Children Behaving Badly? presents a powerful challenge to commonly held beliefs about peer violence and portrays it as an important child welfare concern.

By gathering together the most updated international research and expert commentary on peer violence issues from across the childhood spectrum, this volume directly addresses the complexity of this troubling issue from a range of multidisciplinary disciplines and perspectives. Contributions throughout the text reveal how childhood is not a homogenous experience but fragmented by gender, ethnicity, sexuality and poverty, which are each addressed within specific chapters. Other issues explored include pre-school children and peer violence, bullying, youth gangs, knife crime, teenage partner violence, sibling abuse, homophobia, international media depictions of violent youth, and implications for professionals working with children and young people.

Throughout the text, new and original research insights are presented with the goal of providing the reader with a greater understanding of the safeguarding of children and young people from this form of violence. Children Behaving Badly? is essential reading for policy makers, researchers, students, and practitioners from a wide range of child welfare disciplines about a highly topical and complex social problem.

Edited by: Christine Barter (NSPCC Research Fellow), David Berridge (Professor)
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 508g
ISBN: 9780470694404
ISBN 10: 0470694408
Series: Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 17 December 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christine Barter is an NSPCC Senior Research Fellow at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Previously she was an NSPCC Senior Research Fellow with the University of Bedfordshire. She has published widely on a range of children's welfare issues. David Berridge is Professor of Child and Family Welfare and Head of the Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. David has been a researcher for 25 years and was awarded an OBE in January 2005 for services to children.

Reviews for Children Behaving Badly?: Peer Violence Between Children and Young People

It is, therefore, both a useful introduction to the conceptual and definitional issues relating to peer violence, as well as to the substantive issues relating to the individual chapter topics. (Children & Society, 2011) The subject matter makes for an uncomfortable read but it is worth the endeavour. This is an important text that social workers should read and absorb. (Oxford Journals Clippings, 1 January 2012)