Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Why has there been an increase in domestic, workplace, and community violence, and how can we prevent it? This book, one in a series sponsored by the National Mental Health Association, helps the reader explore, with the talented contributors, the foundations of violence as well as methods to reduce the incidence of violent behavior in families, workplaces, and communities. This book will provide a useful resource to graduate students, to practitioners, and program developers who want a comprehensive overview of violent behavior and who want to identify programs that work to reduce violent behavior in specific settings from families to workplace to communities.
Synopsis
Violence in Homes and Communities considers increased contemporary domestic, workplace and community violence, and how it can be prevented.
Contributions to this book, one in a series sponsored by the National Mental Health Assocation (USA), explore foundations of violence and methods to reduce its incidence. Topics include: child abuse; spousal abuse; workplace violence; the impact of television violence; racial, ethnic and religious violence; mental illness; domestic violence.
Synopsis
Why has there been an increase in domestic, workplace, and community violence, and how can we prevent it? This book, one in a series sponsored by the National Mental Health Association, helps the reader explore, with the talented contributors, the foundations of violence as well as methods to reduce the incidence of violent behavior in families, workplaces, and communities. The first section provides an overview of this topic and covers: child abuse and neglect from an ecological perspective with a close look at those qualities that place some children at higher risk of abuse; the causes of spousal abuse and interventions to reduce the incidence of this behavior; workplace violence from a definitional, demographic, and theoretical perspective; and, ways to identify the causes of community violence using a public health model. The second section examines environmental factors for violence, including television violence and its impact on youth; stereotypes and its relationships to racial, ethnic, and religious hatred and violence; and, mental illness and violence, particularly how the mentally ill are more often the victim rather than the aggressor. The book concludes with a section that discusses efforts to reduce violent behavior in families, youth, and communities. This book will provide a useful resource to graduate students, to practitioners, and program developers who want a comprehensive overview of violent behavior and who want to identify programs that work to reduce violent behavior in specific settings from families to workplace to communities.
Table of Contents
Understanding the origins and incidence of child maltreatment / Jonathan B. Kotch, Greg O. Muller, and Craig H. Blakely -- Understanding the origins and incidence of spousal violence in North America / Robert L. Hampton, Maria Vandergriff-Avery, and Joan Kim -- Origins and incidence of workplace violence in North America / Lynne F. McClure -- Understanding the incidence and origins of community violence : toward a comprehensive perspective of violence prevention / Lloyd B. Potter -- Television violence and children : problems and solutions / Leonard A. Jason, Libby Kennedy Hanaway, and Ester Brackshaw -- Hating those different from ourselves : the origins of racial, ethnic, and religious hatred / Wayne Winbourne and Renae Cohen -- Mental illness and the myth of violent behavior / Michael M. Faenza ... et al. -- Effective youth violence prevention / Daniel J. Flannery and Laura Williams -- Consensus and contradictions in understanding domestic violence : implications for policy and model programs / Pamela Jenkins and Barbara Davidson -- Community-based approaches to violence prevention / Sandra J. McElhaney and Kathryn M. Effley.