Murder Is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America

by Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard R. Spivak

Authors Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak― two prominent Boston-area public health officials who played leading roles in that city's turnaround― show that the key to Boston's success was creating an interdisciplinary citywide movement. The city's movement― made up of educators, community leaders, police officers, emergency room workers, activist teens, teen and family member survivors of violence, and many others― worked for more than ten years to implement multifaceted preventive programs that confronted each risk factor for youth violence, including

287 pages, Hardcover

First published October 22, 2003