Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgment.

About the Editors.

Contributor List.

SECTION I: FAMILY VIOLENCE.

Violence within Families through the Life Span (A. Burgess & A. Roberts).

Adolescent Dating Violence (G. Ely, et al.).

Children and Adolescents from Violent Homes (L. Rapp-Paglicci).

Domestic Violence in African-American Families (L. See, et al.).

Domestic Violence in Latino Cultures (D. Ferrer).

SECTION II: COMMUNITY VIOLENCE.

Children and Adolescents Exposed to Community Violence (C. Dulmus & C. Hilarski).

Assessing Violent Behavior (E. Tyson, et al.).

Conduct Disorder and Substance Abuse (J. Barthelemy, et al.).

Girls' Delinquency and Violence: Making the Case for Gender-Responsive Programming (M. Chesney-Lind, et al.).

Youth Gang Violence (R. Ellis).

Youth Violence: Chronic Violent Juvenile Offenders (M. Williams, et al.).

SECTION III: SCHOOL VIOLENCE.

School Bullying: An Overview (G. MacNeil).

Public Concern and Focus on School Violence (R. Astor, et al.).

Reducing School Violence: A Social Capacity Framework (G. Bowen, et al.).

School Violence among Culturally Diverse Populations (K. Jordan).

SECTION IV: WORKPLACE VIOLENCE.

Preventing Workplace Violence (J. Wodarski & C. Dulmus).

Workplace Violence: Prevention and Intervention, Theory and Practice (J. Waters, et al.).

Domestic Violence in the Workplace (P. Brownell & A. Roberts).

Author Index.

Subject Index.

About the Author

LISA A. RAPP-PAGLICCI, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

ALBERT R. ROBERTS, PhD, is a professor at Rutgers University.
JOHN S. WODARSKI, PhD, is a professor at the University of Tennessee and a consulting editor for John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Reviews

"A useful reference work for students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers." (Choice, December 2002) “…very comprehensive…a book to learn from.”(Int’l Jnl of Adolescent Med & Health, Vol.3, No.15, 2003)