Overview
- Unique in its focus on both adults (males and females) and children
- One of the first books to focus explicitly on the connections among multiple types of violence
- Identifies directions for research for better understanding the commonalities and differences across different kinds of violence, abuse, and maltreatment
- Describes ways that intervention and prevention approaches can better serve individuals who have experienced multiple types of violence
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence. These interconnections have critical implications for conducting research that can produce valid conclusions about the causes and consequences of abuse, maltreatment, and trauma. The accumulated data on co-occurrence also provide strong evidence that prevention and intervention should be organized around the full context of individuals’ experiences, not narrowly defined subtypes of violence. Managing the flood of new research and practice innovations is a challenge, however. New means of communication and integration are needed to meet this challenge, and the Web of Violence is intended to contribute to this process by serving as a concise overview of the conceptual and empirical work that form a basis for understanding the interconnections across forms of violence throughout the lifespan. It also offers ideas and directions for prevention, intervention, and public policy.
A number of initiatives are emerging to integrate the findings on co-occurrence into research and action. The American Psychological Association established a new journal, Psychology of Violence, which is a forum for research on all types of violence. Sherry Hamby is the founding editor and John Grych is associate editor and co-editor of a special issue on the co-occurrence of violence in 2012. Dr. Hamby also is a co-investigator of the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV), which has drawn attention to polyvictimization. Polyvictimization is a focus of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Defending Childhood Initiative and has recently been featured in calls for grant proposals by the Office of Victims of Crime and National Institutes for Justice.
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“The Web of Violence provides an introduction to the need for a more integrated approach to dealing with all aspects of violence. Health care and criminal justice professionals new to the field of violence can learn to think beyond discrete incidents and attend to patterns using the overview of co-occurrence provided in this book. The authors have extensive experience in this area.” (Martha E. Banks, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 58 (35), August, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Web of Violence
Book Subtitle: Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse
Authors: Sherry Hamby, John Grych
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5596-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5595-6Published: 14 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5596-3Published: 13 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2212-6368
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6376
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 108
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Family, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Developmental Psychology, Quality of Life Research