Abstract
This chapter provides an overview and elaboration of the chapters in this section on community violence. The overview is divided into six sections: what is community violence, what are the available data used to study community violence, how is community violence affected by sociodemographic characteristics and dynamics, what are the risk and protective factors associated with different types of community iolence, and what are the promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies and programs that are available for different types of community violence.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan |
Subtitle of host publication | A Project of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) |
Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
Pages | 1905-1920 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319899992 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783319899985 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2021 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Psychology
- General Medicine
Keywords
- Community Violence
- Evidence-based
- Intersectionality
- Prevention
- Risk and Protective factors
- Socioecological
- Structural Violence