Violence involving children and youth

Extracted from text ... VIOLENCE INVOLVING CHILDREN AND YOUTH Craig Higson-Smith Human Sciences Research Council The World Report on Violence and Health (Krug, Dahlberg, Mercy, Zwi, & Lozano 2002) places the underlying causes of violence within societal and communal structures and practices, and not merely within the violent offender. The public health approach encourages co-operative, inclusive, preventative strategies, something that the older moral and legal paradigms did not. This generally comprehensive Report, developed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is a strong international statement on the need to reduce the incidence of violence in society. Chapter two reveals the alarming global trends in youth violence (Mercy, Butchart, Farrington, & Cerda? , 2002). However, some ..