TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morton,Keith William
TI  - Getting out: youth gangs, violence and positive change 
SN  - 9781613766774
AV  - HV6439 .G488 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Gang members
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - United States
KW  - Juvenile delinquents
KW  - Ex-gang members
KW  - Services for
KW  - At-risk youth
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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
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