Getting out : youth gangs, violence and positive change /
Keith Morton.
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Perspective taking -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Thinking about gang//violence -- Chapter Two. Violence, considered -- Chapter Three. Violentization (and trauma) -- Chapter Four. Youth positive: a practical theory for engaging and supporting gang- and street-involved youth -- Chapter Five. Nonviolence as a meaningful alternative -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Index.
"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 pursued nonviolent alternatives, he offered what he calls a "Youth Positive" approach that prioritizes healing over punishment and recognizes them as full human beings. Informed by deep personal connections with these youth, Morton contends that to help them, we need to change our question from "What is wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?"--Page 4 de la couverture.
9781613766774 9781613766767
2019000204
Gang members--Rehabilitation--United States. Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--United States. Ex-gang members--Services for--United States. At-risk youth--Services for--United States.