1292 JAMC• 10 MAI 2005; 172 (10) to which the programs were designed with due regard to
the culture and the developmental stage (age range) of the target populations. The …

Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience Page 1 School-Based Violence Prevention
Programs: A Review of Selected Programs with Empirical Evidence Irma Molina, MSW Stan L …

Discusses key issues in developing and evaluating school-based violence prevention
interventions. Schools provide a natural setting for implementing programs directed at …

Child and youth violence has been decreasing since the early 1990s, but despite significant
decline, the prevalence of violent behaviors is still alarmingly high. A survey of a nationally …

The purpose of the study was to examine the nature of school-based violence prevention
policies and programs in Canada. The study included the following methods of inquiry: a …

Although involvement with violence is currently a common and repeated pattern for many
US children, this pattern can be changed or prevented. Violence can be largely prevented …

This sourcebook, which builds on a 1993 publication," The Prevention of Youth Violence: A
Framework for Community Action," offers insight into best practices to prevent violence by …

The rising prominence of adolescent violence among national concerns has prompted
increasing demands for efforts to curb this urgent problem. These demands have resulted in …

The primary purpose of this chapter is to begin to compile the scant existing systematic
literature on violence in prevention programs in schools. This chapter begins briefly by …

Violence prevention programs with varying degrees of scientific support have proliferated in
the United States and elsewhere. This paper previewed a broad range of programs …