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Murder Is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America

Murder Is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America

Hardcover

CriminologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 078796980X
ISBN13: 9780787969806
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: Oct 22 2003
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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

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