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TITLE: JUVENILE
VIOLENCE IN A
WINNER-LOSER CULTURE AUTHOR: James, Oliver ISBN hb: 1 85343 309 8 ISBN pb: 1 85343 302 0 PAGES: 300 LIST PRICE hb: £ 40.00 ($ 50.00) LIST PRICE pb: £ 16.95 ($ 25.00) PUB DATE: 1995
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TITLE: JUVENILE
VIOLENCE IN A
WINNER-LOSER CULTURE AUTHOR: James, Oliver ISBN hb: 1 85343 309 8 ISBN pb: 1 85343 302 0 PAGES: 300 LIST PRICE hb: £ 40.00 ($ 50.00) LIST PRICE pb: £ 16.95 ($ 25.00) PUB DATE: 1995
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| DESCRIPTION: Since the 1980s, the
gap between the rich and the poor has widened - a winner-loser culture
has emerged, with the disadvantaged deemed the 'losers'. Marshalling
the most up-to-date research on crime and violence, both nationally and
internationally, and linking it to trends in social, familial and economic
dysfunction caused by deprivation, Oliver James shows how inequality serves
to provide the breeding ground for violence and the conditions by which
it is perpetuated.
"I find the book invaluable in addressing, as a psychologist or social psychologist, the links between increasing inequality - which equals poverty for all practical purposes - maternal depression and male violence. This is both original and powerful, and very persuasive." Professor David Downes
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