Violence in Indigenous communities : full report / Paul Memmott ... [et al.]
- Bib ID:
- 2412935
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Barton, A.C.T. : Crime Prevention Branch, Attorney-General's Department, c2001
- vi, 122 p. ill. col. ports., col. maps; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0642284040 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Reviews the literature on indigenous violence which reflects a recent interest in violence by researchers and explains the fact that violence in indigenous communites has dramatically increased in certian regions since 1980s.
- Full contents:
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- Section 1. A review of literature on Indigenous violence
- Quatitative analyses
- Qualitative analyses
- Causes of violence
- Underlying factors of violence
- Situational factors
- Precipitating causes
- Cutomary violence and the problem of the abnormal enculturation of violence
- Alcohol and violence
- Powerlessness and helplessness amongst Indigenous men
- Section 2. Forms of Indigenous violence
- On the classification of violence
- Section 3. Violence programs in Indigenous communities
- Program profiling
- The identified violence prevention programs in Indigenous communities
- Description of program categories
- Programs not included in this survey
- Descriptions of individual program categories
- Classification of violence programs according to their time of implementation
- Findings of the program suvey
- Deficiencies of literature on violence programs
- More can be done
- Section 4. Strategies for combating Indigenous violence
- Understanding the cause for community-driven programs
- Starting a violence program in a community
- The need for holistic composite programs
- Relationships and partnerships between groups
- Program evaluation
- Summary of guidelines for local violence strategies
- Some Indigenous violence priorities.0
- Notes:
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- "National Crime Prevention"--Cover.
- Bibliography: p. 114-122.
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- Publication date:
- 2001
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