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The National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence is dedicated to the human right to be safe at home, at school, in the community, and within the institutions of society. There is daily proof across all of these contexts that broad changes are required to make this human right a reality. Research documents that violence can be prevented whether against children (Hostinar and Miller, Am Psychol 24(6):641–652. http://dx.doi.org/10j.1037/amp0000520, 2019), adults (Howell et al., Psychol Violence 8(4):438–447. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000147, 2018; Richards and Gover, Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 62(4):851–867. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X16663890, 2018), or older adults (Robinette et al., Soc Sci Med (1982) 198:70–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.12.025, 2018; Wilkins et al., Connecting the dots: an overview of the links among multiple forms of violence. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Prevention Institute, Atlanta/Oakland, 2014). However, it requires the recognition of the multifaced causes of violence and the tremendous price tag society is paying for the physical pain, emotional suffering, and loss of productivity that it causes. The following National Plan to End Interpersonal Violence details a public health approach that would transform current educational, judicial, protective service, and treatment systems. These systems would become evidence-based, delivered within a public health model, and would provide equal access to all citizens. Twenty-two recommendations are provided along with strategies for implementation. If fully implemented, this plan would make interpersonal violence a rare event in three generations.
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Vieth, V.I., Berman, P.S. (2022). A National Plan to End Interpersonal Violence 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_299
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