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Violence in Context - Current Evidence on Risk, Protection, and Prevention (Hardcover)
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Violence in Context - Current Evidence on Risk, Protection, and Prevention (Hardcover)
Series: Interpersonal Violence
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Public and academic interest in youth and community violence has
grown with school shootings, horrific cases of child abuse, and
reports of domestic abuse becoming regular news features. Research
on interpersonal violence has had a corresponding progression, but
there is a tendency by researchers to examine these issues at the
individual level, rather than considering the micro- and
macro-level causes, correlates, and outcomes for those affected
directly and indirectly by violence.
Edited by four leading violence researchers, Violence in Context
takes the more systemic view, offering a critical appraisal of
research and theory that focuses on violence in youth, families,
and communities. Authors investigate the ways in which violence is
defined and understood, how risk and protective factors promote and
inhibit violence in the groups most responsible for the
socialization of youth, and how violence and related behaviors
differ by gender, race, and ethnicity. A rich analysis of the field
familiarizes readers with some of the most compelling approaches to
violence prevention, including interventions that begin at infancy
with families at risk. Every chapter examines the latest research
on violence prevention, with a goal of moving towards the
multi-system, integrated intervention models and approaches that
will incorporate the social context of violence across settings and
population subgroups.
The result is a valuable interdisciplinary book for scholars,
practitioners, and students that provides a comprehensive overview
of published studies, limitations of research findings, and a
thoughtful discussion of the ways in which future research can
build on what is currently known about the causes, consequences,
and prevention of violence in different settings.
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