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• Preface
• Summary
• 1. Adolescents at Risk
• 2. Earnings and Employment
• 3. Families
• 4. Neighborhoods
• 5. Health and Health Care
• 6. Academic Schooling
• 7. From School to Work
• 8. Juvenile and Criminal Justice
• 9. Adolescents in the Child Welfare System
• 10. Good Practice: Community-Based Interventions and Services
• 11. Conclusions and Research Directions
• Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
• Index

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This panel report presents a study of high-risk youth, with a focus on their contemporary "threatening environments" and on the policies that create and sustain them. The major settings identified within the context of adolescent life are families, schools, neighborhoods, health care, and law enforcement milieus. Panel members collected and evaluated data from a variety of sources. Results document the precarious position of adolescents today, particularly those who are poor or members of ethnic and racial minority groups, as their environments become increasingly disintegrated and dangerous. The text concludes with suggestions for environmental change and future research. This well-written volume makes an important contribution to the field of youth studies. All levels. M. O. McMahon; East Carolina University