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The presence of street gangs has been hypothesized as influencing overall levels of violence in urban communities through a process of gun-drug diffusion and crosstype homicide.
Journal Article
This article examines data from 2,575 high school students who participated in a teen-dating violence intervention study. The majority of participants were Latino (91%), and the sample was nearly evenly split with respect to gender (51% female). Items from two scales (boy-on-girl violence; girl-on-boy violence) reflecting teens' attitudes about dating violence were calibrated with the graded item response theory (IRT) model and evaluated for differential item functioning (DIF) by gender. Results support the use of IRT scores that account for DIF to minimize measurement error and improve inferences about gender differences in attitudes about dating violence
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Well developed social and problem solving skills, greater ability to adapt, and positive peer relationships help to protect some children from the harmful consequences of being mistreated.
Report
Building on the first-year implementation assessment, this report examines the progress and effectiveness of the problem-solving officer program funded by Measure Y, Oakland, California's Violence Prevention and Public Safety Act of 2004.
Research Brief
Discusses the potential of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to reduce the burden of chronic health problems on poor and minority neighborhoods and describes three successful CBPR programs.
Report
Examines the effects that liberalization processes and democracy promotion have had on terrorism and political violence in six Arab countries.
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This meta-analytic review of 148 studies on child and adolescent direct and indirect aggression examined the magnitude of gender differences, intercorrelations between forms, and associations with maladjustment.
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The authors examine available open-source data on Iraqi civilian fatalities and assess problems associated with previous collection efforts. They present a more robust dataset and propose a framework for future data gathering in Iraq and beyond.
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Current unrest in the Malay-Muslim provinces of southern Thailand has captured growing national, regional, and international attention. This paper assesses the current situation and its probable direction.
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This paper aims to improve the understanding and treatment of failed states by focusing on critical challenges at the intersections between security, economics, and politics and on the guiding goal of empowering local populations.
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Focuses on the potential for interventions at three stages in the offending process: risk assessment, rehabilitation and management of violent offenders. It is aimed at those interested in understanding and intervening to reduce violent crime.
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The U.K. National Audit Office (NAO) commissioned RAND Europe to conduct this review to identify and synthesize international research about the effectiveness of community orders in reducing re-offending.
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This paper evaluates the impact of the 1992 Civil Unrest in Los Angeles (which followed the Rodney King incident), in which many alcohol outlets were damaged leading to a decrease in alcohol outlet density, on crime.
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Latent growth mixture modeling was used to identify discrete patterns of physical aggression from Grades 7 to 11 among a sample of 1,877 youth.
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Proposes a structure to address intersecting gender-and age-specific harms for girl soldiers, who experience a cumulative vulnerability that is not merely additive and not addressed by human rights frameworks restricted to either women or children.
Journal Article
Cross-lagged relationships between posttraumatic distress symptoms and physical functioning are reciprocally related following traumatic injury. Interventions targeting physical recovery may influence subsequent mental health, and vice versa.
Research Brief
People living with HIV are much more likely to experience mental health or substance abuse problems than are people in the general population. About one in three individuals do not receive treatment services for these problems.
Report
An assessment of the first-year progress of community-policing and violence-prevention programs funded by Measure Y, a 10-year initiative to reduce violence in Oakland. The report focuses on implementation; impact analyses will be conducted later.
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This report documents 9/11 victims' groups -- a powerful force in U.S. counterterrorist policy and legislation -- and compares them to groups formed in response to other terrorist attacks.
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