Youth Violence Prevention
- Controlling Crime Before It Happens: Risk-Focused Prevention (National Institute of Justice Journal)
National Institute of Justice, 1995
This article explains the benefits and use of a public health model for violence prevention, based on determining and addressing the risk factors for youth violence and strengthening the protective factors that buffer the effects of exposure to risk.
- Predictors of Youth Violence
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2000
This Bulletin describes a number of risk and protective factors that reduce or prevent youth violence.
- Preventing Adolescent Gang Involvement
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2000
This Bulletin provides information on which to build a comprehensive strategy to prevent youth gang involvement, as it examines the youth gang problem within the larger context of juvenile violence.
- Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising: A Report to the United States Congress
National Institute of Justice, 1997
An evaluation of the effectiveness of crime prevention programs concluded that some prevention programs work and some do not and that the effectiveness of U.S. Department of Justice funding for crime prevention depends heavily on whether it is directed to the urban neighborhoods where youth violence is highly concentrated.
- Preventing School Violence: Plenary Papers of the 1999 Conference on Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation--Enhancing Policy and Practice through Research, Volume 2
National Institute of Justice, 2000
Three plenary papers of the 1999 Conference on Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation -- Enhancing Policy and Practice Through Research focus on what is being done and what can be done to prevent violence in schools.
- Preventing Violence and Related Health-Risking Social Behaviors in Adolescents (Summary)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2004
After identifying the factors that contribute to violent behavior and associated adverse health consequences in childhood and adolescence, this research review examines the features of effective interventions and priorities for future research.
- Preventing Violence the Problem-Solving Way
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1999
This resource describes the use of interpersonal cognitive problem-solving skills by Raising a Thinking Child, a primary prevention program for parents and their children.
- Prevention of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2000
This Bulletin describes some of the developmental precursors for serious and violent juvenile offending and describes effective approaches for its prevention that focus on family, parent, and child.