A COMMENTARY ON ADOLESCENT GROUP VIOLENCE

Authors
SCHEIDLINGER S
Citation
S. Scheidlinger, A COMMENTARY ON ADOLESCENT GROUP VIOLENCE, Child psychiatry and human development, 25(1), 1994, pp. 3-11
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Psychology, Developmental",Psychiatry,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Child psychiatry and human development → ACNP
ISSN journal
0009398X
Volume
25
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
3 - 11
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-398X(1994)25:1<3:ACOAGV>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
In an effort to understand some of the group dynamic factors inherent in today's unprecedented increase in youth gang violence, the larger, well organized gangs of the 1960's, were compared with the contemporar y crowd-like, small packs of street youths. A hypothesis is advanced t hat the combined processes of de-individuation and of group contagion underlie many of the violent acts, so rampant in inner-city areas.