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Critical realism can unsettle a number of orthodoxies that surround the study community violence within psychology. This is to say, because critical embraced so rarely by psychologists, it institute parallax shift discipline, whereby we are granted alternative ways perceiving contexts. Drawing on transdisciplinary thought, offer in this article retroductive framework for studying violence. fram...

Community psychology in general and the field of prevention in particular has unquestioningly accepted the assumption that the research process should proceed in a linear fashion from a search for basic knowledge to application in the community context. This ignores the compelling insight offered by Stokes (1997) that the drive for new knowledge and the pursuit of application can be combined in...

As economic inequality and segregation continue to grow in the U.S., psychology has an important role to play in exploring and promoting processes that can disrupt social injustice. This paper identifies the privatization of public space as a social problem that contributes to the entrenchment of social, economic, and racial inequality, and advances "critical placemaking" as a tool for reclaimi...

n engl j med 372;24 nejm.org June 11, 2015 2326 From the Department of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON (C.Y.S., K.L.H.), the Departments of Community Health Sciences (M.E., W.E.T.), Ecosystem and Public Health (W.E.T.), and Psychology (H.L.R.), University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, and the Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph...