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Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children's Geographies, there's a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people published by all the major academic presses then there is a substantive body of work on younger people within human geography and active authors and researchers working within international contexts to warrant a specific Major Reference Work on children's and young people's geographies. The volumes and sections are structured by themes, which then reflect the broader geographical locations of the research

Cette etude se penche sur la question suivante: quelles sortes de relations sociales entretiennent entre eux et la societe des adultes, les adolescents qui vivent dans deux societes dont les degres de complexite sont differents ? Les donnees proviennent de deux etudes comparables d'adolescents americains et libanais. Les resultats indiquent que les jeunes americains sont plus orientes vers les groupes d'age que ne le sont ceux du Liban. Les jeunes libanais, au con‐traire, sont plus influences par les valeurs familiales et scolaires que le sont les adolescents des Etats‐Unis. Ces resultats s'expliquent a partir des differences dans les fonctions de la famille et des groupes d'age aux Etats‐Unis et au Liban et a partir egalement des differences dans les empechements socio‐structurels a l'autonomie des groupes d'age. On discute la signification de ces resultats pour la recherche.This study examines the question of how youth in each of two societies at different levels of structural complexity relate themselves to each other and to the adult community. Data were obtained from two comparable studies of American and Lebanese youth. The results show that American youth are more oriented to youth peer groups than are their Lebanese counterparts. Contrariwise, Lebanese youth are more oriented to the family and to school related values than are their American counterparts. These results are explained in terms of societal differences in family and peer group functions, as well as differences in social structural impediments to peer group autonomy. The research implications of the study are discussed.

Abstract Although there have been several journalistic and impressionistic accounts of police corrupt behavior, there are few empirical studies of this phenomenon. One of the reasons for this lack of research is the absence of theoretical frames of reference to guide research endeavors. This paper deals with police corruption as but one of many forms of occupational deviance and discusses the manner in which the social conditions existing within the occupational milieu contribute to such corruption. In particular. the paper examines the manner in which the opportunity structure and socialization practices within the occupation combine with peer group support to create a social situation where certain corrupt acts are tolerated and accepted.

Previous studies identified several domestic factors that may influence a country's level of structural coup-proofing, i.e., counterbalancing strategies that shall prevent internal groups from seizing power via acoup d'état. We suggest that a country's level of counterbalancing is also affected by such policies in what we term countries' "peer groups." When deciding the appropriate level of counterbalancing, rulers may be affected by external information flows from a "peer group" with similar structural coup-risk characteristics (institutions) or a similar coup-risk experience (coup history). Using maximum likelihood spatial lag models and data in 1976–2005, we find that leaders learn from and emulate counterbalancing in other states, but rather only through an "experiential peer group."

A peer group discussion and decision method was used to change young drivers' attitudes toward road safety. An experimental group exposed to this experience shifted their attitudes, becoming more favorable toward the road law, the rights of other road-users, and less inclined to take risks induced by peers, than a control group not exposed to the experience. No shifts occurred, however, in drinking patterns.

Peer group supervision implemented in a public child welfare agency enhanced the training of staff in the management and treatment of protective services cases in a cost-effective, growth-producing way. The agency wanted a training method that would upgrade the overall quality of service.