Author:Morton, Keith
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Getting Out: Youth Gangs, Violence, and Positive Change
By: Morton, Keith
Price: $19.95
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: August 2019
Seller ID: 299861
ISBN: 1625344279
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Like New
For eight years Keith Morton codirected a safe-space program for youth involved in gang or street violence in Providence, Rhode Island. Getting Out is a result of the innovative perspectives he developed as he worked alongside staff from a local nonviolence institute to help these young people make life-affirming choices. Rather than view their violence as pathological, Morton explains that gang members are victims of violence, and the trauma they have experienced leads them to choose violence as the most meaningful option available. To support young people as they "unlearned" violence and ...
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