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Building community capacity for violence prevention.

William J Sabol1, Claudia J Coulton, Jill E Korbin

  • 1Case Western Reserve University, USA.

Journal of Interpersonal Violence
|March 10, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Community capacity to prevent violence, including youth violence and child maltreatment, is enhanced by social control and collective efficacy. Strong and weak ties are crucial for violence prevention efforts.

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Area of Science:

  • Criminology
  • Sociology
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Violence, including youth violence, child maltreatment, and intimate partner violence, poses a significant public health challenge.
  • Community factors play a crucial role in violence prevention, yet their specific mechanisms require further elucidation.
  • Existing research often focuses on individual-level interventions, potentially overlooking community-level protective factors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine community capacity for preventing youth violence, child maltreatment, and intimate partner violence.
  • To identify key protective factors within communities that contribute to violence prevention.
  • To differentiate the roles of various social controls (private, parochial, state) in relation to collective efficacy.

Main Methods:

  • The study analyzes community social control and collective efficacy as protective factors against different forms of violence.
  • It explores the interplay between strong and weak social ties (interpersonal, organizational, external) and their impact on collective efficacy.
  • A conceptual framework is developed to distinguish the relationships between different types of social controls and violence prevention.

Main Results:

  • Community social control and collective efficacy are significant protective factors across youth violence, child maltreatment, and intimate partner violence.
  • Both strong interpersonal ties and weak ties (including external and organizational connections) are essential for building collective efficacy.
  • The effectiveness of collective efficacy is moderated by the type of social control (private, parochial, state).

Conclusions:

  • Violence prevention strategies must be community-centered, aiming to bolster the community's inherent capacity to prevent violence.
  • Effective violence prevention requires fostering both strong and weak social ties to enhance collective efficacy.
  • Future programs should be designed to strengthen community social control mechanisms and collective efficacy.

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