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This examination of youth violence provides readers with insights from international experts and real-life examples of how nations and communities around the world have successfully dealt with the issue.

The magnitude of the problem of youth violence in nations throughout the world is shocking. What is encouraging is that strategies to combat this issue do appear to work. For example, community-based restorative justice programs in Northern Ireland reduced retaliatory strikes by paramilitary youth groups by 75 percent, and research trials of policy and intervention strategies, such as parent training and early childhood education, have been shown to significantly reduce youth violence.

This text offers a comprehensive overview of youth violence, including background information that defines the problem internationally, a conceptual framework for understanding approaches to youth violence, examinations of multiple case studies, and examples of prevention programs. The final section presents conclusions and suggested strategies for dealing with interpersonal violence and recommendations for future policy.

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• Series Foreword(p. xi)
• Preface(p. xiii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• Part I Background(p. 1)
• 1 An Introduction to Youth Violence(p. 3)
• 2 What We Know about the Nature and Causes of Youth Violence(p. 11)
• 3 What We Know about Preventing Violence(p. 25)
• 4 Public Policy Approaches to Youth Violence Prevention(p. 41)
• Part II Single-Sector Interventions(p. 57)
• 5 Addressing Aggression in Singapore Youths: An Evidence-Based Case Example(p. 59)
• 6 The CeaseFire Method Applied to Iraq: Changing Thinking and Reducing Violence(p. 69)
• 7 The Kingston YÖ Youth Development Program: An Effective Antiviolence Intervention for Inner-City Youth in Jamaica(p. 81)
• 8 No School Left Behind: Merging Israel's National Academic and School Safety Monitoring System and Matching Data-Driven Interventions for Each School(p. 89)
• 9 Community-Based Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland(p. 103)
• 10 The Groblershoop Youth Resilience to Violence Project(p. 115)
• Part III Multisector Interventions(p. 125)
• 11 Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job: Homeboy Industries Gang Prevention and Intervention in Los Angeles(p. 127)
• 12 Youth Violence Prevention around the World: The YouthBuild Case Study(p. 139)
• 13 Reducing Alcohol-Related Youth Violence in Australia through Community Action and Multisectoral Collaboration: The Safety Action Project(p. 151)
• 14 Youth Violence Prevention in Canada: Exemplary, Collaborative, and Evidence-Based Efforts(p. 159)
• 15 Tambou Lapè (Drums for Peace): A Positive Experience for Young People Previously Involved in Armed Violence(p. 175)
• 16 Latin America and Caribbean Experience in Urban Youth Violence Prevention: Citizen Security and Regional Responses(p. 185)
• 17 Preventing Youth Violence in a Community Mental Health Clinic Working with Child Welfare(p. 205)
• 18 Reducing Youth Violence: Central American Coalition for the Prevention of Youth Violence(p. 213)
• Part IV Conclusion(p. 225)
• 19 Putting Violence Prevention Efforts in Perspective(p. 227)
• Index(p. 235)
• About the Editors and Contributors(p. 243)

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CHOICE Review

This collection of scholarly essays addresses the tremendously complex and multidimensional global issue of youth violence. The powerfully diverse social science-based academic and international works identify similar and dissimilar critical conditions and factors across several cultures and nations and establish a comparative analysis. That examination and analysis is the most important and noteworthy contribution of this laudable collection. By determining the consistencies and dissimilarities of youth violence problems between geographic areas and cultures, the scholarly and academic precision of the contributors illuminate inspiring new directions to explore and offer a clearer understanding of the conditions that undermined previously well-intentioned but disappointing attempts to solve them. Perhaps the authors' most compelling yet understated contribution is their identification of both unique and parallel cultural factors and their undeniable qualities and relationships to violence, interwoven into an intricate enigmatic tangle that should encourage additional initiatives. The text reaffirms the conflicting and often counter-productive perspectives taken by various countries and the history of their failed efforts. Such a legacy of disappointment self-promotes this work and offers the promise of refreshed and inspired new alignment to address this worldwide phenomenon. Suitable as the foundation or companion reader of any related advanced undergraduate or graduate course. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. R. M. Seklecki Minot State University

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Joan Serra Hoffman , PhD, is a consultant to international organizations including the Inter-American Bank, the World Bank, the Organization of American States, and USAID.

Lyndee Knox , PhD, is CEO of LA Net, a community-based organization that supports not-for-profit groups working in low income communities.

Robert Cohen , PhD, is professor and vice chair in the department of psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.