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Future Directions in Interpersonal Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan

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Exemplary programs from many parts of the world illustrate promising practices, critical challenges, and new opportunities for the future of interpersonal violence prevention. This chapter identifies several themes for the future, including the need for strategies that can prevent multiple overlapping forms of violence; the importance of mitigating violence risk at multiple levels of the social ecology; the unique value of selective and indicated prevention to disrupt emerging patterns of violence; and the exciting new opportunities for scalable prevention strategies using social media, content sharing, and mobile computing technologies. Future violence prevention efforts will benefit greatly from careful attention to the remarkable accomplishments to date of dedicated activists, practitioners, and researchers who have worked tirelessly to realize the fundamental human right of safety from interpersonal violence.

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Webermann, A.R., Murphy, C.M. (2022). Future Directions in Interpersonal Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan. In: Geffner, R., White, J.W., Hamberger, L.K., Rosenbaum, A., Vaughan-Eden, V., Vieth, V.I. (eds) Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89999-2_99

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