Lisa A. Rapp-Paglicci & Albert R. Roberts 
Handbook of Violence 

A multidisciplinary team of experts examines violence from a
resilience perspective

Violence knows no boundaries. It attacks in schools, in families,
and even in the workforce-places that should be regarded as safe
havens. Encompassing the enormity of violence through a
comprehensive, biopsychosocial perspective, Handbook of Violence
examines community, school, family, and workplace violence,
including identification, classification, prevention, and interview
programs and case management.

Written by the leading authorities in their fields, this
groundbreaking compilation:

* Reviews how children and adolescents from violent homes are
detrimentally affected in multiple ways, including short- and
long-term consequences that seriously impair their psychological,
social, educational, and physical development

* Explores issues related to the occurrence of domestic violence in
African-American families, presenting an array of theoretical
formulations that may prove useful to practitioners who must
service both victims and perpetrators

* Examines the prevalence of female juvenile delinquency and
reviews the literature from a sociological and practice
perspective

* Focuses on the current trends and issues surrounding youth gang
violence, discussing identification, classification, and prediction
as they relate to gang violence as well as effective prevention and
intervention

* Addresses the identification, classification, and prediction of
school violence among middle-school and high-school youth

* Covers the broad range of cases that are classified as ‘workplace
violence, ‘ examining the differences in definition and analyzing
the bases for the growing prevalence of incidents

Topics include:

* Violence within families through the life span

* Adolescent dating violence

* Assessing violent behavior

* Domestic violence in Latino cultures

* Conduct disorder and substance abuse

* Youth gang violence

* School violence

* Preventing workplace violence

* Domestic violence in the workplace

* And much more

Table of Content

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. Mac Neil).

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, Ph D, is an assistant professor at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

ALBERT R. ROBERTS, Ph D, is a professor at Rutgers
University.

JOHN S. WODARSKI, Ph D, is a professor at the University of
Tennessee and a consulting editor for John Wiley & Sons,
Inc.