TY  - JOUR
T1  - The contagion of violence: Highlights from an institute of medicine/national research council workshop
AU  - Patel DM
Y1  - 2012/12/01
N1  - 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.541
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 1101
EP  - 1102
VL  - 166
IS  - 12
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.541
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.541
ER  -