TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Violent acts: why do they do it?
JO  - Australian social work
A1  - Webber, Ruth
A1  - Bessant, Judith
A1  - Watts, Rob
SP  - 247
EP  - 257
VL  - 56
IS  - 3
N2  - There are problems associated with mainstream sociological and criminological research into youth violence. Conventional frameworks ignore the interpretive component of violence and thus fail to treat youth violence as a form of action in which motivations, moral impulses and feelings are constitutive of the action. Young people historically have had little opportunity to enter into dominant discourses about violence. This paper reports on the accounts of 29 young people who have been directly involved in violence. Those young people were asked to define violence and describe what personal and collective meanings they attach to their actions.<p /> 
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SN  - 0312-407X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0312-407x.2003.00080.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -