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NCJ Number:	184964

Title:	Youth Violence Prevention, Intervention, and Social Policy: An Overview (From Youth Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Social Policy, P 3-46, 1999, Daniel J. Flannery and C. Ronald Huff, eds. -- See NCJ-184963)

Author(s):	Delbert S. Elliott Ph.D.; Patrick H. Tolan Ph.D.

Date Published:	1999

Page Count:	44

Sponsoring Agency:	American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc Arlington, VA 22209-3901

Sale Source:	American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825 Arlington, VA 22209-3901 United States of America

Publisher:	http://www.appi.org

Type:	Issue Overview

Format:	Book (Hardbound)

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	This chapter is an overview of the relationship between youth violence prevention and intervention and social policy.

Abstract:	This chapter provides an overview of youth violence prevention and intervention and introduces the subjects described in the remaining chapters: (1) society's response to the youth violence epidemic; (2) designing and implementing effective violence prevention and control strategies; (3) prevention strategies that work; (4) obstacles to implementing effective programs and policies; (5) strategies to improve the use of violence research and evaluation; (6) political and economic issues; (7) institutional maintenance; (8) an organizing conceptual paradigm for violence research and prevention programming; (9) defining violence and identifying its forms; and (10) life course transitions and trajectories. The chapters describe the modest knowledge base for designing and implementing violence prevention and intervention programs and the need for continued basic research and evaluation. They also argue for a comprehensive national violence prevention and intervention initiative, which will require a new paradigm for integrating research findings into a more systematic and cumulative body of knowledge. Notes, table, figure, references

Main Term(s):	Juveniles

Index Term(s):	Behavior modification; Economic influences; Research; Research methods; Research uses in policymaking; Socioeconomic development; Violence; Violence prevention; Violent juvenile offenders



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