The violence related norms, attitudes and beliefs of young men in high-risk urban neighbourhoods

该研究项目的目的是从经验上克服世界不同地区暴力程度较高的城市社区中年轻男性暴力相关规范缺乏经验比较研究和理论解释的问题。因此，我们建议在德国、巴基斯坦和南非的高风险城市社区，比较暴力青年和主流青年之间与暴力有关的规范、态度和信念。为了实现这些目标，我们需要经验数据，这些数据将通过焦点小组访谈（主要研究之前和之后），定性青年访谈和专家访谈在三个国家收集。此外，我们将与当地的实地专家举办讲习班，不仅有助于传播我们的研究结果，而且还通过讨论和阐述对这些结果的解释来完成实地工作。我们将采访两个年龄组（12-16岁和17-21岁）的男性青少年，并与不同的参与暴力行为，以获得更广泛的形象的暴力相关的规范，态度和信仰的变化。

The aim of the research project is to empirically overcome the lack of empirical comparative research and theoretical accounts on violence related norms of young men in urban communities characterized by high levels of violence in different areas of the world. Therefore we propose to compare violence related norms, attitudes and beliefs among violent and mainstream youth in high-risk urban neighbourhoods in Germany, Pakistan and South Africa. In order to achieve these goals we require empir¬ical data, which will be gathered through focus group interviews (before and after the main study), qualitative youth interviews and expert interviews in the three countries. In addition, we will conduct workshops with local field experts that will not only serve to disseminate our research findings but also to finalize the field work by discussing and elaborating on the interpretation of these findings. We will interview male adolescents of two age groups (12-16 and 17-21 years) and with different involvement in violent behaviour for gaining a broader image of the variations of the violence related norms, attitudes and beliefs.