| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages) |
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Interpersonal violence series |
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Interpersonal violence.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Urban Gun Violence -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION I Setting the Context -- 1. Overview and Context -- Introduction -- Urban Self-Help Organizations: One Story -- Book Scope and Goals -- Gun Violence, Social Sciences, and Helping Professions -- Labeling Gun Violence -- Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress: A Brief Overview -- Social Sciences and Helping Professionals and Gun Violence -- Urban Gun Violence -- Source of Urban Guns (Legal and Illegal) -- Motivation for Carrying and Using a Gun |
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Co-Victims of Urban Violence -- Gun Violence and Justice? -- Media, Violence, and People of Color -- Street Workers and Gun Violence -- Strengths, Resiliency, and Assets -- Conclusion -- 2. An Overview of Urban Self-Help Organizations -- Introduction -- Brief Definition -- Key Elements -- Goals and Mission of Urban Self-Help Organizations -- Prevention -- Providing an Avenue for Community Participation -- Validating and Empowering -- Blending Formal and Informal (Experiential) Education -- Culture in Help-Seeking and Help-Giving -- Victim as Helper -- Social Activism |
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Community Engagement and Assets -- Constructing New Identities -- Obtaining Help Without Stigmatization -- Participation at the Level Sought -- Conclusion -- 3. Three Case Illustrations (Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.) -- Introduction -- Case Selection Process and Criteria -- Case Illustrations Outline -- Three Case Illustrations -- Boston: The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute -- Chicago: MASK (Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killing) -- Washington, D.C.: TraRon Center -- Conclusion -- SECTION II Multifaceted Dimensions -- 4. Understanding the Crisis of Urban Gun Violence -- Introduction |
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Intentional Harm-Injuries -- Intentional Harm-Homicides -- Urban Scope -- People of Color Scope -- Youth Scope -- Conclusion -- 5. Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives -- Introduction -- Social Viewpoint -- Political Viewpoint -- Economic Viewpoint -- Challenges in Arriving at Cost Estimates -- The Business of Guns and Ammunition -- Health and Social Service Costs -- Indirect Costs to Real Estate Taxes -- The Cost of Funerals -- Lost Productivity -- Cultural Viewpoint -- Conclusion -- 6. Approaches to Preventing and Intervening With Gun Violence -- Introduction |
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Values and Concepts Underpinning Successful Community Interventions -- Community Empowerment -- Participatory Democracy -- Strengths/Resiliency/Assets First -- Collaborations/Partnerships -- Social Justice -- Major Gun Violence Community Interventions -- Conclusion -- 7. Cross-Cutting Themes -- Introduction -- Women as Activists and Healers -- Qualities of a Leader -- Principles of Urban Self-Help Organizations and Lessons for the Field -- Support From Many Different Sources -- Place and Space -- Different Needs for Different Folks -- Healing Can Transpire in Many Different Urban Places |
| Summary |
"Gun violence is a national threat and no more so than in the nation's urban communities, particularly taking its toll on people of color. Urban violence focused self-help organizations are vehicles for the dead to speak to us, and let us not forget that they once lived among us. These voices get captured and amplified through these organizations - their family become our family. The headlines their deaths created are not allowed to get relegated to history and continue to live giving meaning to a profound social justice cause. This book honors those who have died and continuing to give voice to their lives and preventing others from joining this chorus. The theme that we must forgive ourselves before we can forgive the offender is strong and pervasive among those who are survivors and engaged in self-help initiatives"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed February 09, 2022) |
| Subject |
Firearms and crime -- United States
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Victims of violent crimes -- United States
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Gun control -- United States
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Self-help groups -- United States
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Firearms and crime
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Gun control
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Self-help groups
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Victims of violent crimes
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020031395 |
| ISBN |
9780197515549 |
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0197515541 |
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9780197515532 |
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0197515533 |
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9780197515525 |
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0197515525 |
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