Understanding violence and developing resilience with African American youth in high-poverty, high-crime communities

Katherine Tyson McCrea, Maryse Richards, Dakari Quimby, Darrick Scott, Lauren Davis, Sotonye Hart, Andre Thomas and Symora Hopson

Children and Youth Services Review, 2019, vol. 99, issue C, 296-307

Abstract: The scourge of community violence that besets young citizens in high-poverty U.S. communities of color is a compelling social problem to address. This article synthesizes studies of causes and preventive services for youth violence, including randomized controlled experiments and theoretical, case study contributions. Available evidence indicates that causes of youth violence are complex and interact across multiple layers of social systems. Accordingly, single-factor programs and policies developed for other populations tend to be ineffective for addressing the many injustices with which youth in high-poverty, high-crime communities of color contend. Therefore, we develop a perspective that is developmental, multi-systemic, and restorative of youths' dignity. Responding to researchers' calls for more contextually-grounded case studies of causes and remedies for youth violence, this article focuses on Chicago, where street violence rates in some communities are among the highest in the world and have increased in the last several years.

Keywords: Black youth; Community violence; Community services for disadvantaged youth; Policies to prevent youth violence; Trauma-focused interventions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.12.018

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