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Murder Is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard R. Spivak
ISBN: 978-0-7879-6980-6
Hardcover
288 pages
October 2003
US $35.00 add_to_cart.gif
 
Introduction.

Part One: The Problem.

1. A Shocked America: The Epidemic Spreads.

2. Who Are We?

Part Two: Issues and Solutions.

3. What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?

4. Understanding Risk and Resiliency.

5. Guns: Escalating the Consequences.

6. It’s the Television, Stupid.

7. The Demonization of Youth.

8. Girls and Violence: Rambettes.

9. Violence at Home.

Part Three: What Happened in Boston.

10. Violence Is Preventable.

11. The Movement Grows.

Part Four: Lessons Learned.

12. There Is No One Model.

13. The System Is Part of the Problem.

14. Going Into the Future.

Notes.

Further Reading.

About the Authors.

Index.

 
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