Handbook of Violence

A multidisciplinary team of experts examines violence from aresilience perspective Violence knows no boundaries. It attacks in schools, in families,and even in the workforce-places that should be regarded as safehavens. Encompassing the enormity of violence through acomprehensive, biopsychosocial perspective, Handbook of Violenceexamines community, school, family, and workplace violence,including identification, classification, prevention, and interviewprograms and case management. Written by the leading authorities in their fields, thisgroundbreaking compilation: * Reviews how children and adolescents from violent homes aredetrimentally affected in multiple ways, including short- andlong-term consequences that seriously impair their psychological,social, educational, and physical development * Explores issues related to the occurrence of domestic violence inAfrican-American families, presenting an array of theoreticalformulations that may prove useful to practitioners who mustservice both victims and perpetrators * Examines the prevalence of female juvenile delinquency andreviews the literature from a sociological and practiceperspective * Focuses on the current trends and issues surrounding youth gangviolence,discussing identification, classification, and predictionas they relate to gang violence as well as effective prevention andintervention * Addresses the identification, classification, and prediction ofschool violence among middle-school and high-school youth * Covers the broad range of cases that are classified as "workplaceviolence," examining the differences in definition and analyzingthe bases for the growing prevalence of incidents Topics include: * Violence within families through the life span * Adolescent dating violence * Assessing violent behavior * Domestic violence in Latino cultures * Conduct disorder and substance abuse * Youth gang violence * School violence * Preventing workplace violence * Domestic violence in the workplace * And much more