Research Catalog

Title

Murder is no accident : understanding and preventing youth violence in America / Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard R. Spivak.

Author

Prothrow-Stith, Deborah, 1954-

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Spivak, Howard R., 1947-

Description

vi, 279 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Publisher's description: Authors Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak-- two prominent Boston-area public health officials who played leading roles in that city's turnaround-- show that the key to Boston's success was creating an interdisciplinary citywide movement. The city's movement-- made up of educators, community leaders, police officers, emergency room workers, activist teens, teen and family member survivors of violence, and many others-- worked for more than ten years to implement multifaceted preventive programs that confronted each risk factor for youth violence, including Positive Role Models: Peer mentoring and teacher-training programs Healthy and Safe Communities: Youth centers, after-school programs, and other organized recreational activities Poverty: Economic stimulus policies to help reduce poverty in inner-city and rural areas Pro-Social Behaviors: Conflict resolution and violence prevention curricula in schools Domestic Violence: Home visitation programs and screening to protect kids from domestic violence Gun Buybacks: Reduction in the number of firearms on the streets.

Subject

• Violence in adolescence > United States
• Violence in children > United States
• Violence in adolescence > United States > Prevention
• Violence in children > United States > Prevention
• Violence in adolescence > Massachusetts > Boston > Prevention
• Violence in children > Massachusetts > Boston > Prevention
• Youth and violence > United States
• Violence
• Children
• Violence
• Adolescent
• Child
• Violence > prevention & control
• violence
• children (people by age group)
• 71.65 criminality as a social problem
• Children
• Violence in adolescence
• Violence in children
• Violence in children > Prevention
• Youth and violence
• Jeugdcriminaliteit
• Geweldsdelicten
• Verenigde Staten
• Massachusetts > Boston
• United States

Note

• "A Wiley imprint."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index.

Contents

Shocked America: the epidemic spreads -- Who are we? -- What do we know and how do we know it -- Understanding risk and resiliency -- Guns: escalating the consequences -- It's the television, stupid -- The demonization of youth -- Girls and violence: "The Rambettes" -- Violence at home -- Violence is preventable -- The movement grows -- There is no one model -- The system is part of the problem -- Going into the future.

ISBN

• 078796980X
• 9780787969806

LCCN

2003010509

OCLC

• ocm52258327
• 52258327
• SCSB-1311924

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library