Lisa A. Rapp-Paglicci / John S. Wodarski / Albert R. Roberts
A multidisciplinary team of experts examines violence from a resilience perspective<br /> <br /> Violence knows no boundaries. It attacks in schools, in families, and even in the workforce-places that should be regarded as safe havens. Encompassing the enormity of violence through a comprehensive, biopsychosocial perspective, Handbook of Violence examines community, school, family, and workplace violence, including identification, classification, prevention, and interview programs and case management.<br /> <br /> Written by the leading authorities in their fields, this groundbreaking compilation:<br /> * Reviews how children and adolescents from violent homes are detrimentally affected in multiple ways, including short- and long-term consequences that seriously impair their psychological, social, educational, and physical development<br /> * Explores issues related to the occurrence of domestic violence in African-American families, presenting an array of theoretical formulations that may prove useful to practitioners who must service both victims and perpetrators <br /> * Examines the prevalence of female juvenile delinquency and reviews the literature from a sociological and practice perspective<br /> * Focuses on the current trends and issues surrounding youth gang violence,discussing identification, classification, and prediction as they relate to gang violence as well as effective prevention and intervention<br /> * Addresses the identification, classification, and prediction of school violence among middle-school and high-school youth<br /> * Covers the broad range of cases that are classified as "workplace violence," examining the differences in definition and analyzing the bases for the growing prevalence of incidents<br /> <br /> <br /> Topics include:<br /> * Violence within families through the life span<br /> * Adolescent dating violence<br /> * Assessing violent behavior<br /> * Domestic violence in Latino cultures<br /> * Conduct disorder and substance abuse<br /> * Youth gang violence<br /> * School violence<br /> * Preventing workplace violence<br /> * Domestic violence in the workplace<br /> * And much more
