The Next Frontier of Violence Prevention
What if the next step in violence prevention isn't happening on the street?
Over the past decade, cities across the country have demonstrated that violence can be reduced. Community violence intervention programs, hospital-based initiatives, focused deterrence strategies, and neighborhood partnerships have helped many communities achieve meaningful reductions in shootings and homicides. Those successes deserve recognition. But they also raise an important question: If communities are becoming safer from public violence, why do intimate partner homicides and murder-suicides continue to devastate families?
A New Challenge for Violence Prevention Leaders
For more than twenty years, violence prevention practitioners have developed increasingly sophisticated approaches to identifying individuals at risk for community violence. Many of those approaches work. Yet some of the most lethal forms of violence follow a different pathway. Research suggests that individuals who commit intimate partner homicide and murder-suicide often do not resemble the chronic violent offenders that traditional violence prevention systems were designed to identify. If that is true, we may be facing a significant prevention gap.
Applying Community Violence Intervention Lessons to Intimate Partner Violence
This paper explores whether the lessons that helped communities reduce shootings and homicides can inform the next generation of intimate partner violence prevention efforts.
Topics include:
✓ Why intimate partner homicide may require a different prevention framework
✓ What community violence intervention can teach the domestic violence field
✓ The role of behavior change science in violence prevention
✓ Opportunities for earlier intervention before criminal justice involvement
✓ Strategies for reducing intimate partner homicide and murder-suicide
✓ Policy implications for cities, funders, researchers, and practitioners
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