title: The ecological context of interpersonal violence: from culture to collective efficacy.
abstract: This brief essay outlines the progression over the last 20 years of ecological theories of interpersonal violence. The period between the present and the early 1980s began with a revival of cultural explanations of violence that paralleled the introduction of the neo-conservative social science and then witnessed a rediscovery of deficits based structural explanations of interpersonal violence under the broad rubric of social disorganization theory. The essay concludes with a more optimistic appraisal of recent refinements of social disorganization theory that consider the mediating effects of collective efficacy on urban crime and interpersonal violence.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, USA. mukboy@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Gunnar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Almgren
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011203:Poverty; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000592:standards; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D012307:Risk Factors; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012931:Social Environment; D012934:Social Isolation; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States