Preventing Violence In America
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Author |
: William L. Lassiter |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2009-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313353970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313353972 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Preventing Violence and Crime in America's Schools by : William L. Lassiter
A thorough overview of violence and crime in America's schools explores which solutions work and which don't, providing a framework for prevention at every level. Although it is major incidents like Columbine or Virginia Tech that grab the headlines, everyday occurrences of bullying, harassment, and physical intimidation in schools impact entire communities, driving kids out of public schools and destroying faith in public education. Preventing Violence and Crime in America's Schools: From Put-Downs to Lock-Downs provides educators, parents, law enforcement officials, and other youth-serving professionals with a unique perspective on the topic of school violence. More important, it offers solutions to the problems facing all schools when it comes to violence and safety. Two expert authors examine specifics relating to school violence, opportunities to prevent and intervene, and the importance of planning for a crisis. Most other books about school violence either highlight the research or highlight practitioner viewpoints. This revealing book presents both, balancing insights gained through real-world experiences with research on best practices. The result is a fuller understanding of the problem—understanding that will enable solutions.
Author |
: National Research Council |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 481 |
Release |
: 1993-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309054768 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309054761 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding and Preventing Violence by : National Research Council
By conservative estimates, more than 16,000 violent crimes are committed or attempted every day in the United States. Violence involves many factors and spurs many viewpoints, and this diversity impedes our efforts to make the nation safer. Now a landmark volume from the National Research Council presents the first comprehensive, readable synthesis of America's experience of violence-offering a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to understanding and preventing interpersonal violence and its consequences. Understanding and Preventing Violence provides the most complete, up-to-date responses available to these fundamental questions: How much violence occurs in America? How do different processes-biological, psychosocial, situational, and social-interact to determine violence levels? What preventive strategies are suggested by our current knowledge of violence? What are the most critical research needs? Understanding and Preventing Violence explores the complexity of violent behavior in our society and puts forth a new framework for analyzing risk factors for violent events. From this framework the authors identify a number of "triggering" events, situational elements, and predisposing factors to violence-as well as many promising approaches to intervention. Leading authorities explore such diverse but related topics as crime statistics; biological influences on violent behavior; the prison population explosion; developmental and public health perspectives on violence; violence in families; and the relationship between violence and race, ethnicity, poverty, guns, alcohol, and drugs. Using four case studies, the volume reports on the role of evaluation in violence prevention policy. It also assesses current federal support for violence research and offers specific science policy recommendations. This breakthrough book will be a key resource for policymakers in criminal and juvenile justice, law enforcement authorities, criminologists, psychologists, sociologists, public health professionals, researchers, faculty, students, and anyone interested in understanding and preventing violence.
Author |
: National Research Council |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2012-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309220248 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309220246 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social and Economic Costs of Violence by : National Research Council
Measuring the social and economic costs of violence can be difficult, and most estimates only consider direct economic effects, such as productivity loss or the use of health care services. Communities and societies feel the effects of violence through loss of social cohesion, financial divestment, and the increased burden on the healthcare and justice systems. Initial estimates show that early violence prevention intervention has economic benefits. The IOM Forum on Global Violence Prevention held a workshop to examine the successes and challenges of calculating direct and indirect costs of violence, as well as the potential cost-effectiveness of intervention.
Author |
: James Gilligan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0500282781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780500282786 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Preventing Violence by : James Gilligan
In this controversial and compassionate book, the distinguished psychiatrist James Gilligan proposes a radically new way of thinking about violence and how to prevent it.
Author |
: Paul A. Schewe |
Publisher |
: Amer Psychological Assn |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1557989117 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781557989116 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Preventing Violence in Relationships by : Paul A. Schewe
Annotation Schewe (researcher, U. of Illinois at Chicago) presents 10 contributions by psychologists describing interventions for use in preventing violence in intimate relationships and in families. Theory, research, and practice have been melded in discussion of school-based child sexual abuse prevention, child sexual abuse as a public health concern, children victimized by peers, dating violence education, self-protection strategies for rape avoidance, men's responsibility for preventing sexual assault, prevention of domestic violence, violence and the elderly population, and evaluating prevention programs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author |
: Institute of Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2011-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309211543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309211549 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Preventing Violence Against Women and Children by : Institute of Medicine
Violence against women and children is a serious public health concern, with costs at multiple levels of society. Although violence is a threat to everyone, women and children are particularly susceptible to victimization because they often have fewer rights or lack appropriate means of protection. In some societies certain types of violence are deemed socially or legally acceptable, thereby contributing further to the risk to women and children. In the past decade research has documented the growing magnitude of such violence, but gaps in the data still remain. Victims of violence of any type fear stigmatization or societal condemnation and thus often hesitate to report crimes. The issue is compounded by the fact that for women and children the perpetrators are often people they know and because some countries lack laws or regulations protecting victims. Some of the data that have been collected suggest that rates of violence against women range from 15 to 71 percent in some countries and that rates of violence against children top 80 percent. These data demonstrate that violence poses a high burden on global health and that violence against women and children is common and universal. Preventing Violence Against Women and Children focuses on these elements of the cycle as they relate to interrupting this transmission of violence. Intervention strategies include preventing violence before it starts as well as preventing recurrence, preventing adverse effects (such as trauma or the consequences of trauma), and preventing the spread of violence to the next generation or social level. Successful strategies consider the context of the violence, such as family, school, community, national, or regional settings, in order to determine the best programs.
Author |
: Daniel W. Webster |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2013-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421411118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421411113 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reducing Gun Violence in America by : Daniel W. Webster
The book includes an analysis of the constitutionality of many recommended policies and data from a national public opinion poll that reflects support among the majority of Americans—including gun owners—for stronger gun policies.
Author |
: Peter D. Donnelly |
Publisher |
: Oxford Textbooks in Public Hea |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199678723 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199678723 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention by : Peter D. Donnelly
'Oxford Textbook Violence Prevention' brings together an international team of experts to provide an extensive global account of the global mortality and morbidity burden caused by violence through examining the causes of violence, and what can be done to prevent and reduce violence.
Author |
: Linda C. Degutis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0875533116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780875533117 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gun Violence Prevention by : Linda C. Degutis
"This book will differ from other books on gun violence in that it will serve as both a primer and a handbook for public health practitioners, advocates, students, and the public, and will make information about the public health approach to gun violence accessible. Using a conceptual framework that has led to successes in decreasing motor vehicle related deaths and disability, the book will focus on effective strategies to engage in productive dialogue about gun safety while protecting the rights of responsible gun owners. It is meant to be a resource rather than a textbook to be read cover-to-cover"--
Author |
: Jillian Peterson |
Publisher |
: Abrams |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2021-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781647002275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1647002273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Violence Project by : Jillian Peterson
"Groundbreaking." ―Rachel Louise Snyder, bestselling author of No Visible Bruises An examination of the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and an urgent call to implement evidence-based strategies to stop these tragedies Winner of the 2022 Minnesota Book Award Using data from the writers’ groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence Project charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence. Frustrated by reactionary policy conversations that never seemed to convert into meaningful action, special investigator and psychologist Jill Peterson and sociologist James Densley built The Violence Project, the first comprehensive database of mass shooters. Their goal was to establish the root causes of mass shootings and figure out how to stop them by examining hundreds of data points in the life histories of more than 170 mass shooters—from their childhood and adolescence to their mental health and motives. They’ve also interviewed the living perpetrators of mass shootings and people who knew them, shooting survivors, victims’ families, first responders, and leading experts to gain a comprehensive firsthand understanding of the real stories behind them, rather than the sensationalized media narratives that too often prevail. For the first time, instead of offering thoughts and prayers for the victims of these crimes, Peterson and Densley share their data-driven solutions for exactly what we must do, at the individual level, in our communities, and as a country, to put an end to these tragedies that have defined our modern era.