Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article explores the perceptions of urban African-American and Iraqi refugee adolescents regarding community violence, school violence, family violence and dating/intimate partner violence. A subset of participants from a larger study on violence and trauma was selected to participate in the current study. Using a card-sort exercise, participants identified situations as violent or not violent. Iraqi youth identified noticeably more behaviors as violence than African-American youth. Few significant gender differences emerged. Findings of important cultural differences provide implications for violence prevention programming.
Disciplines
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance | Social Psychology and Interaction | Social Work
Recommended Citation
Beverly M. Black , Barbara L. Peterson , Arlene N. Weisz , Poco D. Kernsmith , Linda A. Lewandowski & Krupa K. Hegde (2009) Definitions of Violence: African-American and Iraqi Refugee Adolescents' Perceptions, International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 14:4, 313-331, DOI: 10.1080/02673843.2009.9748012
Included in
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons, Social Psychology and Interaction Commons, Social Work Commons
Comments
Deposited in accordance with publisher policies as indicated at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0267-3843/. Published original at http://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2009.9748012.