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Engaging practitioners and academic researchers in co-developing evaluation measures for community violence interventions [PDF]

Injury Epidemiology
Background Community violence intervention (CVI) is increasingly considered an important component of comprehensive public safety infrastructure, but research and evaluation of CVI programs remain underdeveloped.
Meron Girma, Julia P. Schleimer, Andrew Hillen, Astrid Aveledo, Ayah Mustafa, Deepika Nehra, Dominique Davis, Elaine Gonzalez, Emily Westlake, Esprene Liddell-Quintyn, Kris Torset, Kristian Jones, Laura Johnson, Lina R. Benson, Lynniah Grayson, Orlando Ames, Rachel Ross, Samantha Decker, Taffy Hunter, Tarell Harrison, Tier Simon-Matthews, Vivian Lyons, Zaheed Lynch, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar   +23 more
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Resilience-Informed Community Violence Prevention and Community Organizing Strategies for Implementation: Protocol for a Hybrid Type 1 Implementation-Effectiveness Trial [PDF]

JMIR Research Protocols, 2023
BackgroundCommunity violence is a persistent and challenging public health problem. Community violence not only physically affects individuals, but also its effects reverberate to the well-being of families and entire communities.
Natalie A Blackburn, Stefany Ramos, Michele Dorsainvil, Camara Wooten, Ty A Ridenour, Anna Yaros, Vicki Johnson-Lawrence, Dana Fields-Johnson, Nzinga Khalid, Phillip Graham   +9 more
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Relationships, resources, and political empowerment: community violence intervention strategies that contest the logics of policing and incarceration [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Community violence—defined as unsanctioned violence between unrelated individuals in public places—has devastating physical, psychological, and emotional consequences on individuals, families, and communities.
Mia Karisa Dawson, Asia Ivey, Shani Buggs   +2 more
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Protocol: Reducing community violence: A systematic meta‐review of what works [PDF]

Campbell Systematic Reviews
This is the protocol for a Campbell Collaboration systematic review. Our objective is to synthesize what is known about the effectiveness of strategies for reducing community violence, focusing on those strategies that have been subjected to a systematic
David B. Wilson, Thomas Abt, Catherine Kimbrell, William Johnson   +3 more
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Understanding Structural Violence in Community Violence Intervention (CVI): A Multi-City Qualitative Analysis of Practitioner Perspectives [PDF]

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
The discourse on community violence has expanded over the years, shifting from a focus on interpersonal physical harm to a broader understanding that includes systemic and structural harm.
Asia S. Ivey PhD, Julia J. Lund MPH, Amanda J. Aubel MPH, Shani A. L. Buggs PhD, MPH   +3 more
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Violent victimization among immigrants: Using the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine foreign-born homicide victimization in the United States

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022
Limited research attention has focused on homicides involving foreign-born victims. Using data from the National Violent Death Reporting System, we examined 9428 homicides that occurred in 2017 in the United States across 32 states and D.C. Approximately
Kayla R. Freemon, Melissa A. Gutierrez, Jessica Huff, Hyunjung Cheon, David Choate, Taylor Cox, Charles M. Katz   +6 more
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The effect of exposure to community violence on youth on the Cape Flats

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
Community violence exposure contains a variety of contextual and subjective complexities that include being the victim or hearing of shootings, stabbings, weapon possession with intent of criminal use, beatings, burglaries, and drug activities that could
Thulani Andrew Chauke
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Childhood Adversity Moderates Change in Latent Patterns of Psychological Adjustment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Survey of U.S. Adults

Social Sciences, 2023
Emerging evidence suggests that the consequences of childhood adversity impact later psychopathology by increasing individuals’ risk of experiencing difficulties in adjusting to stressful situations later in life.
Kelly E. O’Connor, Camie A. Tomlinson, Shelby E. McDonald, Samantha Brown, Jennifer W. Applebaum, Jennifer L. Murphy, Angela Matijczak, Barbara A. Zsembik, Stephen W. Porges   +8 more
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A community-led mobile health clinic to improve structural and social determinants of health among (im)migrant workers

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Community-led interventions that address structural and social determinants of health are lacking among (im)migrant workers, especially seafood workers.
Shannon Guillot-Wright, N. Miles Farr, Ellie Cherryhomes   +2 more
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Psychological profiles, including emotion regulation characteristics, defence strategies and mentalisation capacity, of male adolescents involved in fights among peers

BJPsych Open, 2023
Background Youth violence has become a worrying public health issue worldwide. In Europe and the USA, research has shown a prevalence of this phenomenon ranging from 30 to 70% in boys. Aims This descriptive study aimed to evaluate psychological profiles
Silvia Cimino, Luca Cerniglia
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