Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence (Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series.) [Paperback]

James Garbarino (Author), Nancy Dubrow (Author), Kathleen Kostelny (Author), Carole Pardo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 11, 1998

Childhood is ideally a time of safety, marked by freedom from the economic, sexual, and political demands that later become part of adult life. For many children, however, particularly those who live in our inner cities, childhood is increasingly a time of danger. In the urban war zones of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., children grow up with firsthand knowledge of terror and violence. This book examines the threat to childhood development posed by living amid chronic community violence. Most importantly, it shows caregiving adults such as teachers, psychologists, social workers, and counselors how they can work together to help children while they are still children--before they become angry, aggressive adults.

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"Children in Danger is a triumph of compassionate scholarship, a lucid application of state-of-the-art trauma research to the challenges faced by children growing up in our urban battle fields." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A stunning, must-read book for anyone interested in how community violence affects children's and teacher's development. Even better, it's a road map for school administrators and teachers on what they can do to help these children deal with the chronic violence in their lives." --Bill Harris, founder, KidsPac, a political action committee for children

"This valuable book offers insight and guidance to the professional who must help children cope with the cruel challenge of violence and death in their daily lives." --Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University

"[Children in Danger] is such a compelling account of the ways in which children are affected by living in communities where danger and violence are a way of life, that one hopes it will be read by policymakers at all levels of government who are concerned about the fate of an ever-growing number of children in our society." --Contemporary Psychology

About the Author

JAMES GARBARINO is co-director of the Family Life Development Center and professor of human development at Cornell University. Author of fifteen other books, he formerly served as president of the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development. NANCY DUBROW is director of the International Child Welfare Group of the Taylor Institute in Chicago. She is also a consultant to international organizations, including UNICEF and the World Health Organization. KATHLEEN KOSTELNY is director of the Project on Children and Violence and senior research associate at the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development. For more than a decade, she has been conducting research on the impact of violence on children. CAROLE PARDO is a child development specialist with a concentration in the area of "children at risk for developmental harm." From 1990 to 1995, she worked as a program associate on the Children in Danger project at the Erikson Institute.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass (September 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787946540
• ISBN-13: 978-0787946548
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #854,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Danger, January 26, 2005

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Eileen (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence (Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series.) (Paperback)

Children in Danger is a good book to read. It is very interesting and it talks about children who saw someone get hurt.These children are the ages of two and up. They been in the middle of accidents and around them.I really like this book because it talks about children that are in danger and it explains there problem that they have. Who they saw get hurt. I didnt like that the children were tramitized and they had to go through what happend.
I feel like this book is a good book for everyone to read because it was very interesting. It caught my attention and it inspired me to keep reading the book. It made me feel good that the children were the ones who told some of the story. This is a good book.


Eileen Gonzales
Baldwin Park CA. 91706

4.0 out of 5 stars All Our Children, February 10, 2010

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This review is from: Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence (Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series.) (Paperback)

So many of our children experience violence in their homes and communities. I've heard James Garbarino speak several times and he does have a pulse on what is happening and ideas on what we can do about it. For anyone working with youth, buy the book, read it, and then do something more to help your own community.