This book examines The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, which provides a unique source ...

The transition to adulthood can be difficult for young adults who suffer from a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. ...

Young People, Leisure and Place reports on cross-cultural research into the personal geographies of young people. It explores young people's leisur...

Objectives: This book examined the decision making process and health seeking patterns of low-income young women with unplanned pregnancies who opt...

While murder is a matter of serious concern to the community, serial killing is a matter of even greater concern. Serial killers have baffled the p...

While murder is a matter of serious concern to the community, serial killing is a matter of even greater concern. Serial killers have baffled the p...

What issues, challenges and problems do young people face in 21st century society? How do they make sense of their lifeworlds? Are they proactive o...

Youth development represents a complex set of individual transitions embedded in a particular socio-political environment, cultural context, and hi...

This book offers the most current research and reviews, innovative programs and approaches, developments and directions, and future outlooks and tr...

Gang activity and related violence threaten public order in a diverse range of communities in the United States today. Congress has long recognised...

The transition to adulthood in the United States has changed in recent decades as many of the traditional milestones that mark adulthood, such as h...

Since the world's first juvenile court was founded in Chicago, our legal system has recognised a separate mandate to rehabilitate youth with an app...

Congress has indicated a strong interest in ensuring that today's young people, those age 16 through 24, attain the education and employment experi...

Youth mentoring refers to a relationship between youth -- particularly those most at risk of experiencing negative outcomes in adolescence and adul...

This book provides analysis, recommendations and laws on youth safety on the internet and explores a host of collaborative and multi-faceted initia...

The vast majority of non-biomedical research on HIV/AIDS has been behavioural research, usually by survey methods, counting people's sex acts, part...

Youth Transition in a Globalized Marketplace (YTGM) is based on the experiences of youth in a number of countries. The authors of this study are in...

Nearly half of states have laws that explicitly permit the state child welfare system to continue providing foster care for children beyond the age...

While most young people have access to emotional and financial support systems throughout their early adult years, older youth in foster care and t...

What is happening to the social fabric of America? Children are afraid to go to school for fear that another lunatic will decide to shoot up the st...

Every time a young person is harmed by violence, our nation's future strength and growth are jeopardised. We are losing our next generation of youn...

There are multiple reasons to prevent juveniles from becoming delinquent or continuing to engage in delinquent behaviour. The most obvious reason i...

This important book deals with the problem of youth violence by attacking it at the grass-roots level -- the community.

The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), was initiated in 2001 to provide a national picture of the characteristics and experiences of...