Children Behaving Badly? Peer Violence Between Children and Young People

Children Behaving Badly? is the first publication to directly address the complexity of peer violence from a range of disciplines and perspectives. This book provides important insights into theoretical understanding of the issue and produces significant and far-reaching implications for policy and practice developments. Based on up-to-date research evidence, this book includes some unpublished findings from recognized experts in multidisciplinary fields. The book also challenges many populist and damaging representations of youth violence and the associated narratives of modern youth as essentially evil.

Christine Barter is an NSPCC Senior Research Fellow at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Previously she was an NSPCC Senior Research Fellow with the University of Bedfordshire. She has published widely on a range of children's welfare issues. David Berridge is Professor of Child and Family Welfare and Head of the Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. David has been a researcher for 25 years and was awarded an OBE in January 2005 for services to children.