title: Community violence: causes, prevention, and intervention.
abstract: This article presents some pragmatic schemata for understanding various types and motivations for violence. This understanding is essential to frame prevention, intervention, and postvention strategies designed to reduce the phenomena of violence in our society. Each category of violence lists examples of prevention, intervention, and postvention strategies. This article is intended to broaden the understanding of violence so that strategies to address violence will become more specific and measurable.
authors.affiliation: Community Mental Health Council Inc., Chicago, IL 60617, USA.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011640:Public Policy; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*