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Murder, American Style, the book
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Murder, American Style is a book by Alex Alvarez and Ronet Bachman, printed in 2002. We bought it in England for 23 pounds, Amazon lists the book at $34 but not yet distributed. The book is part the Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series. The authors are academic. The book has a number of statistics and facts, some of which I had not ran into before. For instance, the % of use of firearms in homicides was an average of 60% in the 80-89 period and rose to 67% in the 90-98 perio ...
Violence Against Women
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According to the CDC, in 1994 they established a program entitled "The Family and Intimate Violence Prevention Team (FIVPT)". Sounds good. It then goes on say that the CDC was appropriated in fiscal year 1997 $14.3 million to prevent violence against women. So much for objectivity, I suppose. "CDC funded three state health departments in fiscal year 1994 to address family and intimate partner violence issues. The states will inventory existing data sources and prevention programs; ...
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SafeYouth.org - Teen Facts - Community Violence Prevention Initiatives Communities across the United States are beginning to mobilize to confront the problem of youth violence. Some are developing new violence prevention programs and finding ways to bring funding into their communities. Others are learning to better coordinate existing efforts and use their resources more effectively. Teens often play an important leadership role in these efforts. They bring energy, initiative, commitment, and a unique perspective that too often has been ignored in the past. What are the key ingredients for a successful community violence prevention effort? Successful ...
Violence prevention programs are most effective when all members of the community embrace and support the effort. It is important to assess community leaders' and residents' beliefs and attitudes about the problem of violence. In some places, residents may not acknowledge that youth violence is a problem. In others, they may recognize that it is a serious problem, but may not believe that prevention efforts will make a difference, or they may believe in and support only one particular approach to address the problem of youth violence. For example, community members are less likely to support efforts to increase ...
The Community Giving Resource: Violence prevention Why is violence prevention important? Violence happens in every community across the nation. It affects and involves people of all ages, from the very young to the elderly. Violence affects all racial, educational, and socioeconomic groups. Low-income communities, however, are disproportionally affected by violence. These communities have greater exposure to contributing factors, fewer protective factors, and less access to appropriate responses to violence.
Barriers and challenges Building resilience to violence can be challenging. A lack of understanding of what constitutes effective violence prevention is one underlying challenge. Violence is often an emotionally charged issue, fingers are pointed as blame is assessed. Communities may be reluctant to challenge long-established attitudes or practices that could contribute to violence prevention. Frequently, efforts to address violence in a community are fragmented, lacking a coherent strategy and venue for planning.
Oakland Department of Human Services - City County Neighborhood The Initiative uses a unique community-based approach to violence prevention that focuses not just on traditional approaches to crime reduction—such as law enforcement—but on improving a broad range of indicators that are directly correlated with high rates of violence in communities, such as the lack of economic opportunity and constructive activities for youth, blight and physical deterioration, and the absence of strong networks among community residents.
Community Building Coordinators are working in each neighborhood to organize residents so that they become involved in developing their own violence prevention plans and acquire the leadership capacity to effectively advocate for and undertake community improvement projects. Examples of community projects underway in the two neighborhoods include: block clean-ups, reclaiming neighborhood parks, organizing around liquor store nuisances, and planting community gardens.
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Innovative Training Program Teaches Advocates How Technology Can This fifth annual training, funded through a $100,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation, will bring nationally recognized experts in technology, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking together to train advocates on the strategic use of technology to enhance personal safety. Trained advocates will then take the tools and train other members of their community.
Verizon has developed a focused approach to raise awareness about domestic violence and supply technology tools needed to provide immediate and ongoing support for domestic violence victims. Building on Verizon Wireless' longstanding commitment to domestic violence prevention through the Verizon Wireless HopeLine program, Verizon has embraced the issue across the corporation with volunteer initiatives and strategic grants from the Verizon Foundation.
UN An Organization For Peace UN An Organization For Peace Peace groups and UN organization, on both local and international levels, have important and effective roles to play in the process of peace resolution. UN An Organization For Peace Kamala Sarup Peace groups and UN organization, on both local and international levels, have important and effective roles to play in the process of peace resolution. However, political efforts alone are not sufficient in dealing with multiple causes of conflict. Globalization and the rapid progress in communications, have caused a shrinking of international boundaries, bringing the nations of the world closer together ...
ORLEANS COUNTY: Bower presents 'state of the county' address ALBION — There are a lot of things happening in Orleans County, and to keep residents informed the League of Women Voter’s held an annual State of the County address Saturday morning. The speaker, Orleans County Legislature Chairman George Bower, spoke in regard to the upcoming Orleans County Jail project, the status of the Orleans County Nursing Home project as well as several other undertakings in the area. “We think it opens it up to a wider venue so more people are encouraged to part and attend,” said Gabrielle Barone, president of the League ...
Violence awarness events planned tonight for National Night Out Local civic and community groups will show solidarity against neighborhood crime and drugs when they participate in tonight's 24th annual National Night Out 2007 celebration. Block parties, marches, concerts, "lights on" front porch vigils and other activities are planned for the evening. The National Association of Town Watch, sponsor of the campaign, estimates that more than 10,000 communities will participate in this year's event. "America's Night Out Against Crime" is designed to promote crime, drug and violence ...
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Shape Your Nonprofit Website to Generate the Actions You Need Shape Your Nonprofit Website to Generate the Actions You Need By Nancy E. Schwartz At this point in time, almost every nonprofit organization counts heavily on its website to generate donations, program participation and volunteers, among other goals. What’s ironic is that, now that we’re more experienced and comfortable with the Web, many nonprofits have diverted their focus from making sure their sites are maximized to engage users. Here’s an example: I’ll never forget when a local museum re-opened ...
To Snitch, Or Not to Snitch Earl Ofari Hutchinson The resistance of blacks to provide information that could help catch killers has frustrated and infuriated police and prosecutors, increased the spiral of violence that racks some poor black neighborhoods, and deepens the fear and panic of many blacks over violent crime. Though the anti-snitch movement has been roundly denounced by many black leaders, victims of violence, and gang violence prevention groups, there's still a brisk growth industry in peddling T-shirts with the words "stop snitching" printed in bold letters that ...
The long history of police-black community conflict, the fury that many African-Americans feel over the countless number of blacks that have been jailed and even dumped on death row merely on the word of a street or a jailhouse informant is a sore point. A study by Northwestern University Law School Center on Wrongful Convictions found that in the 100 wrongful death penalty convictions of black men in the past quarter century, the majority were convicted on the perjured testimony of alleged eyewitnesses. Numerous studies have shown that blacks are far more likely ...
Nov 1, 1996 - How to Give Peace a Chance? National Guidebook Key Results Staff developed a comprehensive guidebook, Peace by Piece, which documents the current evaluation status for each of the 50 activities, and provides follow-up suggested readings and resources. The guidebook presents aspects of violence prevention programs in modules so that communities can develop their programs one piece at a time. Staff established a resource center that during the grant period was fielding more than 200 inquiries per month. The project director sat on the steering committee for the National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention, an independent group of funders from across ...
The Men's Group Monitoring Guide Sitting in the shade of a large burned out cinderblock building we met with members of the ELWA men's action group. They were delighted to respond to our questions about how the Male Involvement Project has affected themselves and others in their community. As sounds of drumming and singing emerged from the building, and children played noisily nearby, we listened to the men talk earnestly about how their lives had changed as a result of their involvement in the men's action group. A community leader described how he is now hosting gatherings at his home where he is "preaching" about the Men As Partners approach ...
We then moved to another corner of the building to sit with members of the women's action group to hear their perspectives on the men's action group (MAG). They described the significant changes that the men's action group has inspired in their community and the increased their feeling of safety for women and girls that has resulted. They described how the men's action group contributed their time and money to get t-shirts printed for the women's action group, and is helping them build a women's center. And, even though there are times ...