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Social network analysis offers a powerful approach for describing and modeling complex social systems and, as such, is uniquely suited to describing, exploring, and increasing our understanding of structural and relational aspects of youth violence and other complex public health issues. Social network analysis provides investigators with analytic tools for examining different pathways through which the relationships between proximate psychosocial and behavioral processes associated with social networks affect risk for youth violence. This chapter provides an overview of the social network paradigm, reviews methodological and analytic tools that are used by this approach, and describes the methods and results of a pilot study that was conducted to assess the role of social networks as protective factors in preventing youth violence.

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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Room 3015, 3rd Floor Old Hospital, 1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Boulevard, Nashville, TN, USA

    Paul D. Juarez PhD

  2. Department of Sociology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Lorien Jasny MA, PhD

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Juarez, P.D., Jasny, L. (2012). Social Network Analysis. In: Li, G., Baker, S. (eds) Injury Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1599-2_26

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