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Civic communities and urban violence

Social Science Research, 2015
Civic communities have a spirit of entrepreneurialism, a locally invested population and an institutional structure fostering civic engagement. Prior research, mainly confined to studying rural communities and fairly large geographic areas, has demonstrated that civic communities have lower rates of violence. The current study analyzes the associations
Jessica M, Doucet, Matthew R, Lee
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Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence—and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets

Contemporary Sociology, 2020
In Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence—and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets, Thomas Abt makes a forceful case for addressing urban violence as a ‘‘national emergency that demands our urgent attention’’ (p. 4).
C. Broughton
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Roots of urban violence

Injury, 1990
Alcohol consumption and dependence, employment status, social and family history and history of previous violence in 49 patients injured in city-centre violence were compared with that in 49 paired, age and sex matched control individuals in a major accident and emergency department.
J P, Shepherd, L, Robinson, B G, Levers
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Urban Children's Perceptions of Violence

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2004
To determine how preadolescent urban children conceptualize and experience violence in their lives.This qualitative study reports the results of focus groups designed to examine perceptions of violence among preadolescent urban children. Program directors were trained to conduct the sessions using a semistructured script.
Karen, Sheehan, Lynn E, Kim, John P, Galvin   +2 more
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Urban 'Riots' or Urban Violence in France?

Policing, 2007
This article discusses the forms of urban violence which inflamed over 300 sensitive neighbourhoods in France in November 2005, referred to by the media, politicians and researchers as 'riots'.1 This choice of word is not without consequences. The term riots, associated with cities, evokes the racial riots in American cities during the 1960s and those ...
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Transforming minds, people and places: Leadership coalition building as catalyst for intersectoral collaboratives in urban violence prevention

Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2019
This paper assesses the impact of two pilot leadership development workshops. It tests the potential of an evidence and Place-based transformational Leadership Development (P-BLD) framework for building leader and leadership capabilities across sectors ...
R. Worrall, Finn Kjaerulf
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Violence and the Urban Crisis

Crime & Delinquency, 1970
A significant part of the study by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence was addressed to the problem of violence and the urban crisis. While' this article in cludes a discussion of the emotional aspects of violence, acknowl edging that one root of violence is the "infant" in all of us, a creature of emotion and not of reason,
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How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts

Qualitative Sociology, 2022
Jeffrey Lane, Forrest Stuart
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Urbanization Violence to Nature

2021
With the uncontrollable population growth in the cities, the rising need for settlement has increased the needs of the cities, as well as making the cities consumption centres. The housing intensity of urbanization were damaged at first, then the farms and agricultural production areas in the city periphery, and then it directly affected the natural ...
Aslı Güneş Gölbey, Ayşenur Kaylı
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Urban Violence in 1789

2014
This contribution examines the political violence of urban crowds in 1789. It endorses previous contributions that emphasize the importance of subsistence issues for urban consumers and the hopes the calling of the Estates-General stimulated for a drastic transformation.
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