RT Journal
A1 Patel DM
T1 The contagion of violence: Highlights from an institute of medicine/national research council workshop
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2012
FD December 1
VO 166
IS 12
SP 1101
OP 1102
DO 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.541
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.541
AB 
In the past 25 years, the application of public health approaches to violence has yielded a new perspective, one that views violence as preventable. This public health paradigm has revealed not only important risk and protective factors that could serve as intervention points but also a deeper understanding of the nature of violent behavior. Violence has a tendency to cluster, spread from setting to setting, and transform from one type to another. Rather than occurring at random, violent events tend to follow other violent events. Whether the events are geographically close or distant, there seem to be mechanisms that contribute to a contagion of violence.