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100 1 Prothrow-Stith, Deborah,|d1954-
245 10 Murder is no accident :|bunderstanding and preventing
youth violence in America /|cDeborah Prothrow-Stith,
Howard R. Spivak.
250 First edition.
264 1 San Francisco :|bJossey-Bass,|c[2004]
264 4 |c©2004
300 vi, 279 pages ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and
index.
505 0 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.
520 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.
650 0 Violence in adolescence|zUnited States.
650 0 Violence in children|zUnited States.
650 0 Violence in adolescence|zUnited States|xPrevention.
650 0 Violence in children|zUnited States|xPrevention.
650 0 Violence in adolescence|zMassachusetts|zBoston
|xPrevention.
650 0 Violence in children|zMassachusetts|zBoston|xPrevention.
650 0 Youth and violence|zUnited States.
700 1 Spivak, Howard R.,|d1947-
856 41 |3Table of contents|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/
wiley032/2003010509.html
856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/
description/wiley0310/2003010509.html
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