Offering practical examples, this book helps practitioners to apply the insights of how best to pursue a bottom-up approach to development in their own work, while also helping theoreticians and students to develop a strong analytical framework on the subject.
Dexter R. Voisin provides a compelling and social-justice-oriented analysis of current trends in neighborhood violence in light of the historical and structural factors that have reproduced entrenched patterns of racial and economic inequality. He features the powerful voices an…
The beginning -- The tale of two Americas -- Not all violence is the same : race- and place-based violence -- The road to concentrated poverty and neighborhood violence -- The scars of violence -- When violence and sex are entangled -- Living and parenting in the presence of eve…
"Widespread media narratives portray an epidemic of neighborhood violence in urban areas―often ignoring the structural explanations advanced by community organizers fighting violence and activists such as those in the Movement for Black Lives. In this book, Dexter R. Voisin prov…