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Contagion of Violence - Workshop Summary (Paperback, New)
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Contagion of Violence - Workshop Summary (Paperback, New)
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The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of
violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is
inevitable to the recognition that violence is preventable. Part of
this shift has occurred in thinking about why violence occurs, and
where intervention points might lie. In exploring the occurrence of
violence, researchers have recognized the tendency for violent acts
to cluster, to spread from place to place, and to mutate from one
type to another. Furthermore, violent acts are often preceded or
followed by other violent acts. In the field of public health, such
a process has also been seen in the infectious disease model, in
which an agent or vector initiates a specific biological pathway
leading to symptoms of disease and infectivity. The agent transmits
from individual to individual, and levels of the disease in the
population above the baseline constitute an epidemic. Although
violence does not have a readily observable biological agent as an
initiator, it can follow similar epidemiological pathways. On April
30-May 1, 2012, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Global
Violence Prevention convened a workshop to explore the contagious
nature of violence. Part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in
multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores
crosscutting, evidence-based approaches to violence prevention, and
the Forum has convened four workshops to this point exploring
various elements of violence prevention. The workshops are designed
to examine such approaches from multiple perspectives and at
multiple levels of society. In particular, the workshop on the
contagion of violence focused on exploring the epidemiology of the
contagion, describing possible processes and mechanisms by which
violence is transmitted, examining how contextual factors mitigate
or exacerbate the issue. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary
covers the major topics that arose during the 2-day workshop. It is
organized by important elements of the infectious disease model so
as to present the contagion of violence in a larger context and in
a more compelling and comprehensive way. Table of Contents Front
Matter 1 Introduction Part I: Workshop Summary 2 Patterns of
Transmission of Violence 3 Processes and Mechanisms of the
Contagion of Violence 4 The Role of Contextual Factors in the
Contagion of Violence 5 Contagion and Interruption in Practice Part
II: Papers and Commentary from Speakers Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Appendix B: Glossary Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
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