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Community Violence Overview: Guiding Principles, Critical Issues, and Prevention and Intervention Strategies

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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.

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  1. Rutgers University: School of Criminal Justice, Newark, NJ, USA

    Michael B. Greene

  2. Rutgers Medical School & The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Newark/New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Robert L. Johnson

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  1. Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, Alliant International University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Robert Geffner

  2. School of Health and Human Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensbo, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Jacquelyn W. White

  3. Dept of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    L. Kevin Hamberger

  4. Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

    Alan Rosenbaum

  5. Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Viola Vaughan-Eden

  6. Education and Research, Zero Abuse Project, St. Paul, MN, USA

    Victor I. Vieth

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  1. School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA

    Michael B. Greene

  2. Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA

    Robert L. Johnson

  3. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Jacquelyn W. White

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Greene, M.B., Johnson, R.L. (2020). Community Violence Overview: Guiding Principles, Critical Issues, and Prevention and Intervention Strategies. In: Geffner, R., White, J.W., Hamberger, L.K., Rosenbaum, A., Vaughan-Eden, V., Vieth, V.I. (eds) Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62122-7_319-1

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