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Preventing Violence : The Past, Present and Future of the Public Health Approach.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irwin-Rogers, Keir.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health.
- Criminology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book explores the public health approach to preventing interpersonal violence, focusing on its application in England and Wales. Authored by experts in criminology, the work examines the history, current practices, and future directions of this approach. It provides an in-depth analysis of Violence Reduction Units (VRUs), their development, and the challenges they face. The authors argue for a more comprehensive and coordinated strategy to address violence, emphasizing evidence-based interventions and multi-agency collaboration. The intended audience includes policymakers, researchers, and professionals in public health, criminology, and social policy, seeking to develop safer societies through informed strategies for violence prevention. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Preventing Violence The Past, Present and Future of the Public Health Approach
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Scope
- ‘Youth violence’
- Geographic focus
- Generalisability
- Trends in violence
- The causes of interpersonal violence
- Root causes
- Direct causes
- The ecological framework
- The relationship between shame, mattering, and violence
- The public health approach to violence prevention
- The limitations of existing interpretations of the public health approach
- Advancing the public health approach using the ‘Four Is’ framework
- Researching the public health approach to violence prevention
- Interviews and focus groups
- Documentary analysis
- Police-recorded crime data
- Workshops with regional VRUs
- Ethics
- Summary
- Structure and style
- Part I: A short history of the public health approach to violence prevention Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-7386-3
- OCLC:
- 1513379131
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