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A timely exploration of teenage violence and homicide and a plan for responding to the problem on individual, parental, school, and community levels. The author offers ideas on how parents and the community can help turn teenagers from this self-destructive violence.

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Library Journal Review

Much recent research in the social sciences finds that urban violence is a problem that cannot simply be turned over to police and prison officials for their attention. Prothrow-Stith, a former Public Health Commissioner in Massachusetts and now Assistant Dean at the Harvard School of Public Health, holds that teenage violence is a public health problem as well as a problem for the criminal justice system. She reviews the literature on teenage violence and recommends specific plans that require cooperation and innovative problem-solving by a wide range of agencies. Educators will find the violence prevention curriculum that she has designed and tested to be of special interest. Highly recommended for collections in education, public health, urban affairs, and criminal justice.-- John Broderick, Stonehill Coll., North Easton, Mass. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Protherow-Stith's book is the first to address the serious and deadly problem of adolescent violence. It is written in a personal style and augmented with relevant scientific data. Vivid case examples and quotations enrich the content and enforce the author's message. The studies and statistics cited support the urgent necessity to set violence prevention as a national health goal. Prothrow-Stith suggests public health strategies that include health education in classrooms and through mass media, community awareness programs, and hospital-based risk detection, screening, and outreach programs. She also stresses the need for cooperation and collaboration among departments and disciplines as they intervene, inform, mobilize, and assist families, schools, and communities facing the problem. There is an appendix containing descriptions of state-by-state organizations that provide services related to teenage violence. Highly recommended for students and practitioners in the helping professions and for general readers.-M. O. McMahon, East Carolina University

Booklist Review

Deadly Consequences is one of the first book-length studies of violence among young adult males, aged 15 to 24, to treat its subject as a public health issue. This innovative approach to an intractable social problem that's been "talked to death" offers new hope and fresh, workable solutions. The author is the former public health commissioner of Massachusetts and is currently a top administrator at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she is concentrating on designing a wide-ranging violence prevention curriculum for implementation in schools nationwide. The first half of this clear, straightforward book reviews the roots of violence, especially among the highest risk group--poor, young black males. This standard discussion of how TV and other popular media, family environment, and the community setting influence violence is enlivened by gripping, real-life vignettes, hard-hitting facts and statistics, and accessible psychosocial interpretations. The volume's second half details the programs and activities that are being tried in a range of settings to stem the growing tide of violence. Should be on every library's shelf. ~--Mary Banas