Intended to contribute to educators' capacity building and training, this book shows that, during their educational period, adolescents and youngsters face a group of needs and challenges coming from the society where they live. The deviation and marginalization sociology, the juvenile delinquency sociology, and the drug addiction sociology tend to clarify the phenomena that involve violence, social exclusion, and aggressive behavior. The book intends to be and instrument that provides to students and researchers some interpreting categories of such social phenomena that condition and affect the juvenile situation.

Keywords: social exclusion; social inequality; educational sociology; juvenile delinquency; addiction; violence; social behaviour; student behaviour; discrimination; poverty.


Author : Caliman, Geraldo
Editors: Brasília: UNESCO, Cátedra UNESCO de Juventude, Educação e Sociedade, Editora Universa, 2008.
ISBN: 978-85-60485-18-5. 368 p.
PRICE: US$ 39.00
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