Injury Specific Resources

Violence

Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence serves as a national resource to test the effectiveness of school violence prevention methods and to develop more effective strategies.
Alcohol-Related Injury and Violence (ARIV) Project - The ARIV Project has three goals: 1) to facilitate information exchange about ARIV; 2) to synthesize what is known about ARIV; 3) and to disseminate that synthesis to those who are working to reduce ARIV problems.
The Pacific Center for Violence Prevention's Firearm Literature Database contains bibliographic references to journal articles, books, chapters, dissertations, conference papers and proceedings, reports, and studies from lay and scholarly literature in a variety of disciplines.
PreventingCrime.Org is providing Internet access to what the New York Times calls "the most comprehensive study ever of crime prevention," the University of Maryland's Congressionally-mandated study, "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising." You can search the full study online, or read the summary report by the National Institute of Justice.
Child abuse - Systematic Reviews of Childhood Injury Prevention Interventions (Harborview IPRC).
Youth Violence - Systematic Reviews of Childhood Injury Prevention Interventions (Harborview IPRC).
Division of Violence Prevention in CDC's, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, focusing on youth violence, family and intimate violence, suicide, and firearm injuries.
Violence Policy Center (VPC) - VPC is a national educational foundation working to reduce firearms violence in America.
Violence Prevention Research Center, University of California Davis
Violence Prevention Coalition sponsored by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and The State of California Department of Health Services.
The Pacific Center for Violence Prevention works to prevent youth violence in California. Located at San Francisco General Hospital, the Center serves as the policy headquarters for the Violence Prevention Initiative sponsored by The California Wellness Foundation.
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), in the Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado at Boulder, provides assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence.
ConflictNet (WWW) or ConflictNet (gopher).
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (gopher).
PAV*NET - Partnerships Against Violence (gopher).
Domestic violence resources
Palo Alto Police Bulletins.
Screening for violence related injuries (clinical service guide).
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Louisiana Programs and Projects for Violence Prevention, maintained by the Louisiana State Department of Health & Hospitals Office of Public Health Injury Research and Prevention Section.
International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Abuse Prevention Network
The Media Policy Clearinghouse from Mediascope contains an extensive collection of resources about violence and the media, including film, television, the Internet, electronic interactive games and music. It includes years of Congressional testimony, decades of academic research, numerous articles, books, papers from professional organizations, reports and data on media policy in more than 40 countries, media literacy resources, and MPAA ratings on films since 1992.
The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) facilitates the secondary analysis of research data relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect. By making data available to a larger number of researchers, NDACAN seeks to provide a relatively inexpensive and scientifically productive means for researchers to explore important issues in the child maltreatment field.
An Inventory of Services and Funding Sources for Programs Designed to Prevent Violence Against Women is maintained by CDC.
Summary reports and abstracts for the Multi-Site Evaluation of Batterer Interventions Systems (funded by the Centers for Disease Control) are now available from the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute.
The Violence Against Women Grants Office administers the Department of Justice's formula and discretionary grant programs authorized by the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. Grant programs emphasize enhanced delivery of services to women victimized by violence; strengthen outreach efforts to minorities and disabled women.
The Violence Against Women Resources Homepage is devoted to providing law, criminal justice, advocacy, and social service professionals with up-to-date information on interventions to stop violence against women. This site is a cooperative project of VAWGO - the Violence Against Women's Grants Office, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and MINCAVA - the Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse at the University of Minnesota.
VAWnet HOME - National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women

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Last updated: 04/26/05 - http://www.injurycontrol.com/icrin/injury specific/violence.htm

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Author: Hank Weiss MS, MPH, PhD Visiting Research Professor
Co-WebMaster: Gerald McGwin Jr. MS, PhD
URL: http://injurycontrol.com/icrin
Initial posting:1/1/95, Acknowledgments