This volume is comprised of 16 research reports regarding violence and homicide in Hispanic communities. Reports include research on: assaultive injury among Hispanics as the key cause of disparity in burden of death; differences in patterns of homicide in White, Black, and Hispanic populations; data analysis on 12,872 homicides in Chicago over a 17-year period; estimates on homicide rates among subgroups of Hispanics and other ethnic groups in New York City from 1980 to 1983; ethnic and racial differences in 28,535 homicides in Southern California from 1966 to 1985; homicide patterns among Anglos, Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in Bernalillo County, NM from 1978 through 1982; death certificate tabulations on minority homicides in Houston, Texas during 1984 through 1986; ethnicity, sex, victim-offender relationship, offender characteristics, place of birth, and proximity to the border in Texas homicides in 1986; grief reactions across mode of death (natural, accident, suicide, and homicide) among Whites, Black, and Hispanic Americans; incidence of child and spouse abuse in Hispanic families; base rates of psychopathology in Los Angeles comparing family violence among immigrant and non-immigrant Hispanic families; wife battering in Hispanic families and its possible line to elements of the Hispanic culture; Hispanic gang homicide in smaller cities; how barrio youth learn the way to act and think in the context of street realities; violence among Latinos from a health care perspective; and incidence and epidemiologic features of assault and firearms-related brain injuries among Hispanic and non-Hispanic residents in San Diego, California in 1981. Tables, figures, and references