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Youth Violence in Pakistan: The Social Structure and Culture of Violence
Youth Violence in Pakistan: The Social Structure and Culture of Violence

Author(s): Imran Sabir, Muhammad Zaman
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Profilaktyki Społecznej i Resocjalizacji UW
Keywords: youth violence; social structure; culture of violence; Pakistan

Summary/Abstract: Pakistan has been facing a high level of violence over the decades. Although a paucity of knowledge on this issue in Pakistan is observed, this essay nonetheless outlines the documented patterns of street-youth violence: its causes, perpetrators and the socio-cultural and political constructs of the phenomenon. The wide gap in both the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the ‘North and South’ of the intellectual global world impedes the researchers of the indigenous social problems to construct a comprehensive sociological perspective on the street-youth violence that exists in this region.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 7-24
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English