Murder Is No Accident
Subtitle: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: October 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780787969806
Subjects: Causes & prevention of crime; Child & developmental psychology; Juvenile offenders; Social, group or collective psychology; Violence in Society; Violence in children; Social Psychology; Massachusetts; Sociology; Violence in adolescence; Psychology; USA; Children's Studies; Criminology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Prevention; United States
Description: 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.