Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary

by Institute of Medicine, Board on Global Health, Forum on Global Violence Prevention, et al.

The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that violence is preventable. Part of this shift has occurred in thinking about why violence occurs, and where intervention points might lie. In exploring the occurrence of violence, researchers have recognized the tendency for violent acts to cluster, to spread from place to place, and to mutate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309263646
• ISBN13: 9780309263641
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"