Neighborhood Interventions to Reduce Violence

Research and interventions to reduce domestic violence revictimization.

Despite decades of research on domestic violence, considerable challenges must be addressed to develop sound, theoretically and empirically based interventions for reducing domestic violence revictimization. Many basic and applied research issues remain unaddressed by existing studies, and evaluations frequently do not sufficiently highlight their limitations or program or policy implications. ...

Mears REDUCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REVICTIMIZATION RESEARCH AND INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REVICTIMIZATION

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Achieving Escape Velocity: Neighborhood and School Interventions to Reduce Persistent Inequality

Nearly 50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, racial inequality in America remains a persistent empirical regularity. Despite much progress in the 1960s and 1970s, large adverse black-white gaps persist in earnings, employment, family income, health, life expectancy, incarceration, teen pregnancy, educational attainment, and academic achievement. Hispanic-white gaps in economic and educat...

Interventions to reduce the risk of violence toward emergency department staff: current approaches

INTRODUCTION The phenomenon of workplace violence in health care settings, and especially in the emergency department (ED), has assumed the dimensions of a real epidemic. Many studies highlight the need for methods to ensure the safety of staff and propose interventions to address the problem. AIM The aim of this review was to propose a narrative of the current approaches to reduce workplace ...