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Rudiger Appel's Figurine and Link to his site.Violent Neighborhoods, Violent Kids

Go to Violent Neighborhoods, Violent Children About a quarter of the way down the file, you'll find this paragraph:

"A growing body of research, however, also shows that not all afterschool programs are effective at preventing violence and delinquency (Tolan and Guerra, 1994). In fact, sports, one of the most widely provided afterschool activities for adolescent boys, was shown to have little or no positive effect on violence or other forms of delinquent behavior. Rather than focusing on athletic activities, therefore, policymakers may want to provide programs shown to be effective at reducing delinquent behavior (for example, programs intended to teach cognitive skills).

  1. Criminal Justice students, does this surpise you? Why?

    Answer: Most of our readings have spoken of declining rates of violence? Why do you suppose this report differs? There is a difference between the nation's capital and other large cities, in that the Federal government dominates Washington, D.C.

  2. Criminal justice students, consider the opening phrase: "Faced with precipitously rising rates of youth violence . . ." Does that fit with our discussions?

BACK to Questions on Violent Neighborhoods, Violent Kids.

Figurine by Rudiger Appel. Notice that you can see three effects in the animation. Either the Variation on the Kandinsky figurine appears to turn in a clockwise direction, or in a counterclockwise direction, or it appears to open and close. Can you see all three effects? Try. Fascinated? Link to Appel's site and then link to the background he provides. Scroll down until you find a link to background.

Chantessy's Page Chantessy's Mardi Gras Alphabet was originally used on this page. We changed it because it was too distracting as eye candy. Chantessy was the first contributor to our Kids' Site when we began Dear Habermas. Visit her page. Check out the sliders puzzles on her fun page. Or check out her candy box and send a friend a posty. Non-violent ways to respond to structural violence in the academy! It's great fun.