Social Youth

With a mobile health bus, Thomas Heitz drove through the streets of Delhi and cared for street children on the spot. Photo: Etter/MISEREOR

Off to Do Good Deeds – Young People and Volunteer Work

Some protect animals, train young players at the football club or are altar boys. Others even go abroad to help street children. Millions of young people are engaged in volunteer work. Why?More ...

That Dangerous Age? A Closer Look at Juvenile Delinquency

Two German professors want to get to the truth– why exactly do young people become criminal? What are the crimes they commit? And are more and more young people getting into crime, as the German media with all their gruesome images would have us believe? To find some real answers they decided to ask those people who really ought to know – 5,300 kids in Münster and Duisburg. What they were told may be quite a surprise for some people. More ...

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Institut für Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG) der Universität Bielefeld. Copyright: Universität Bielefeld

"Social Divisions and a Lack of Social Recognition Lead to Violence."

Interview with Wilhelm Heitmeyer, professor of Socialization at Bielefeld University, on teen violence and social strife.More ...

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How Serious is the Problem of Juvenile Crime?

The headlines are disturbing: “Martyrdom behind iron door” or “violent school”. Is teenage brutality becoming ever more extreme? Criminologists appeal for a sense of proportion. Often, individual cases are played up by the media and exploited by politicians.More ...