Violence Prevention: Technology-Enabled Therapeutic Intervention

Successful approaches to community violence intervention and prevention.

The field of injury prevention and control is diverse, cross-cutting, and has attracted the efforts of individuals from multiple disciplines. Many types of interventions have been applied in the area on intentional injury, specifically interpersonal violence. The results have been variable with few projects demonstrating scientific efficacy. Among the acknowledged stumbling blocks have been iss...

Multi-College Bystander Intervention Evaluation for Violence Prevention.

INTRODUCTION The 2013 Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act requires U.S. colleges to provide bystander-based training to reduce sexual violence, but little is known about the efficacy of such programs for preventing violent behavior. This study provides the first multiyear evaluation of a bystander intervention's campus-level impact on reducing interpersonal violence victimization and perpetr...

Building global commitment for violence prevention Violence Prevention Alliance

Intervention Following Family Violence

Objective: To provide the first nationally representative data on service contact, police or advocate best practices, and helpseeking obstacles for family violence that involved exposure to children. Method: A nationally representative sample of 517 family violence incidents drawn from the 4,503 respondents to the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence II. Results: A range of 10 bes...

Blueprints for Violence Prevention

Through the Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative, OJJDP provides information to communities on a broad array of violence prevention and intervention programs that have been proven to be effective. This Bulletin describes the demanding criteria established by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence to designate model Blueprints programs and the activities of the 11 programs ...