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James Garbarino
Researcher at Loyola University Chicago
Publications - 145
Citations - 18262
James Garbarino is an academic researcher from Loyola University Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Child abuse. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 141 publications receiving 17293 citations. Previous affiliations of James Garbarino include Boys Town & Empire State College.
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The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design: by Urie Bronfenbrenner Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979, 330 + p.
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High-risk neighborhoods and high-risk families: the human ecology of child maltreatment.
James Garbarino,Deborah Sherman +1 more
TL;DR: Families in the high-risk neighborhood, though socioeconomically similar to families in the low- risk neighborhood, report less positive evaluation of the neighborhood as a context for child and family development, and reveal a general pattern of "social impoverishment" in comparison with families inthe low- Risk neighborhood.
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The human ecology of child maltreatment: A conceptual model for research.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors place the phenomenon of child maltreatment in the perspective of family development and place it as a problem of family asynchrony, i.e., as a mismatch of parent to child and of family to neighborhood and community.
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Children and families in the social environment
TL;DR: The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to childrearing and family life as discussed by the authors, emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's behavior.
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Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the link between a child's response to growing up in an atmosphere of violence and danger, and the social context established for that child by community and caregivers.