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Severe Youth Violence: Developmental Perspectives Introduction to the Special Section
Author(s) -
Malti Tina,
Averdijk Margit
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.12694
Subject(s) - commit , special section , section (typography) , psychology , developmental science , developmental psychology , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , poison control , empirical research , injury prevention , criminology , medical emergency , medicine , epistemology , philosophy , engineering physics , database , computer science , advertising , engineering , business
In this article, the authors introduce the special section on severe youth violence (SYV). As severe violence has significant negative consequences and youth commit more violence than other age groups, a developmental science approach is important to (a) understand pathways to SYV, (b) guide attempts to screen and assess SYV risk, and (c) inform novel, developmentally sensitive practices and policies to prevent and reduce SYV. The authors establish the theoretical and empirical contexts for the articles in this special section and explain how this developmental research on SYV can inform new lines of theoretical and empirical inquiry and innovative approaches to detect and respond to the risk of SYV.