Neighborhood poverty. Volume II, Policy implications in studying neighborhoods /

"Perhaps the most alarming phenomenon in American cities has been the transformation of many neighborhoods into isolated ghettos where poverty is the norm and violent crime, drug use, out-of-wedlock births, and soaring school dropout rates are rampant. Public concern over these destitute areas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne (Editor ), Duncan, Greg J. (Editor ), Aber, J. Lawrence (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1997]
Temas:
Poor children > United States > Case studies.
Urban poor > United States > Case studies.
Families > United States > Case studies.
Neighborhoods > United States > Case studies.
Urban policy > United States > Case studies.
Enfants pauvres > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Familles > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Families
Neighborhoods
Poor children
Social policy
Urban policy
Urban poor
Jeugd.
Armoede.
Stadswijken.
Stedelijk beleid.
United States > Social policy > Case studies.
États-Unis > Politique sociale > Études de cas.
United States
Case studies
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Martha A. Gephart and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
  • Ecological perspectives on the neighborhood context of urban poverty : past and present / Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff
  • The influence of neighborhoods on children's development : a theoretical perspective and a research agenda / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Mary Elizabeth Hughes
  • Bringing families back in : neighborhood effects on child development / Robin L. Jarrett
  • Understanding the neighborhood context for children and families : combining epidemiological and ethnographic approaches / Jill E. Korbin and Claudia J. Coulton
  • Sibling estimates of neighborhood effects / Daniel Aaronson
  • Capturing social process for testing mediational models of neighborhood effects / Thomas D. Cook, Shobha C. Shagle, and Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu
  • Community influences on adolescent achievement and deviance / Nancy Darling and Laurence Steinberg
  • On ways of thinking about measuring neighborhoods : implications for studying context and developmental outcomes for children / Linda M. Burton, Townsand Price-Spratlen, and Margaret Beale Spencer
  • An alternative approach to assessing neighborhood effects on early adolescent achievement and problem behavior / Margaret Beale Spencer, Paul A. McDermott, Linda M. Burton, and Tedd Jay Kochman
  • Neighborhood effects and state and local policy / Prudence Brown and Harold A. Richman
  • Communities as place, face, and space : provision of services to poor, urban children and their families / Tama Leventhal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila B. Kamerman

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