Understanding and Preventing Violence Volume 1 (1993) / Chapter Skim
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1 The Diversity of Violent Human Behavior
1 The Diversity of Violent Human Behavior
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He was approached by two men, one carrying a shotgun, in front of his home at 1423 McBride Street late Monday evening. He put down his Christmas packages and was shot once in the stomach.
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yesterday during a fight at a Christmas party at 2831 Valentine Avenue in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx. … An unidentified 34-year-old man was shot and killed and a 28 year-old man was wounded.
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The principal scientific goal is to understand violent behavior in terms of the same concepts that attempt to explain other human behaviors. The principal policy goal is to find better ways to prevent and control violence.
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In turn, these partial explanations point to different opportunities for interventions to prevent violent behaviors or ameliorate their consequences. But it is mistaken to view these explanations as mutually exclusive alternatives that suggest competing strategies.
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Rather than seeking a single classification system for violence, a preferable strategy involves different classification systems for causal explanation, for prevention, or for interventions that meliorate their consequences. While the preferred strategy involves multiple classification schemes, much of what is known about violent events is based on records classified for the purposes of criminal justice agencies.
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Third, the panel sought to understand violent behavior by bringing together basic knowledge from the biobehavioral and social sciences; these converge most clearly at the individual and group process levels rather than the collective behavior level. The panel's definition deliberately excludes consideration of human behavior that inflicts physical harm unintentionally.
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The criminal justice system focuses primarily on detecting violations of the criminal law and dealing with adult violators. Criminal justice agencies generate data and utilize research on such topics as the detection of offenders, arrests, criminal justice decision making, and the crime control effects of criminal justice sanctions.
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In the past decade, the public health system has begun to apply its traditional public education, assessment, and prevention principles in new initiatives to prevent intentional injuries and deaths. The public health approach seeks to locate populations at risk of intentional injury and to reduce risks by modifying the hazard, reducing the harm associated with the hazard, or repairing the harm more effectively.
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The matrix groups risk factors according to their temporal proximity to the violent behavior: predisposing factors, situational elements, and triggering events; it then arrays them across individual and social levels of description. Lacking a testable general theory of violence, we use the matrix merely to highlight the rich array of targets for interventions to prevent and control violence.
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One of these, a multicommunity longitudinal study, is intended to advance the integrated understanding of violence causes at the biological, individual, community, and microsocial levels. References Berkowitz, L
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Selections From the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder, the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Encino, Calif.: Dickenson Publishing Company.
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