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Adolescent Violence Prevention
Knowledge Path

January 2007

Table of Contents

General Resources

Special Topics

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General Resources

Introduction

This knowledge path about adolescent violence prevention has been compiled by the Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University. The volume of materials on this topic is vast and covers many disciplines, including public health, medicine, criminal justice, education, and social services. This path offers a selection of recent, high-quality resources from these disciplines that measure, document, and monitor the problem; identify risk and protective factors; and report on promising intervention strategies. Separate sections identify resources on specific aspects of adolescent violence such as bullying, firearms, gangs, media violence, school violence, and violent-crime victimization. This knowledge path is aimed at health professionals, policymakers, educators, community activists, and families, and it will be updated periodically.

Please refer to
Knowledge path: Domestic violence for resources about dating violence among adolescents and family violence involving adolescents. Also see our knowledge paths about children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges and Social and Emotional Development in Children and Adolescents.

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Hotlines

  • National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC). Offers a hotline for information and referrals to service providers for victims of all types of crime. Information is available in more than 180 languages. The hotline phone number is (800) 394-2255 (FYI-CALL) or (800) 211-7996 (TTY).

  • SPEAK UP. Offers a hotline to anonymously report a weapon threat at school. SPEAK UP is a national campaign by PAX. The hotline phone number is (866) 773-2587 (SPEAK-UP).

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Overview

  • See Youth violence: Fact sheet, rev. ed. (2006) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This fact sheet describes the problem of adolescent violence in the United States. It outlines the occurrence and consequences of adolescent violence; the groups at risk; and the risk and protective factors in individuals, families, peer groups, schools, and communities. The fact sheet also links to key resources for more information about adolescent violence prevention.

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Additional Electronic Publications 

Databases

The databases listed below are excellent tools for identifying data, additional literature and research, and programs about adolescent violence prevention. Many of the entries below contain tips on how to use the databases efficiently. Please note that databases vary in how terms should be entered; for example, some require quotation marks and others don't. Enter search phrases as shown in bold below.

Data
  • Child Trends DataBank. Reports on national trends and research on over 80 key indicators of infant, child, and adolescent well-being. Search by age or search alphabetically by topic for data briefs about adolescent violence that include physical fighting; students carrying weapons; adolescent homicide; firearm death; and violent crime victimization. Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing research and data to inform decision-making that affects families.

  • Data2010: The Healthy People 2010 Database. Contains the most recent monitoring data for tracking Healthy People 2010. To obtain data about adolescent violence prevention, click on the field, Data by Focus Area. Under the field, Select a Focus Area, choose 15 - Injury and Violence Prevention from the pop-up menu. Next, click on the button for Include Related Objectives From Other Focus Areas in the Table. Click on the Submit button. This data set is provided by the National Center for Health Statistics via CDC Wonder.

  • National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). Offers several systems to capture and present violence-related data:

    Injury Maps. Presents an interactive mapping system to create county-level and state-level maps of age-adjusted, injury-related mortality rates for the United States and for individual states.

    National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). Pools data from state and local health agencies that have gathered detailed information from medical examiners, coroners, police, crime labs, and death certificates to better depict the scope and nature of violence.

    WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System). Presents an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury mortality and nonfatal injury for a wide range of age groups.

  • Title V Information System (Title V IS). Contains data from annual Title V Block Grant applications and reports submitted by all 59 U.S. states and jurisdictions. To identify information about adolescent violence prevention, conduct two searches. Select Measurement and Indicator Data and go to the State Data section. First, select State Priority Needs Keyword Search and choose Keyword: Intentional/Unintentional Injuries and Population: Adolescents. Click on Start Search. Next, select State Performance Measures and click on Search by Keyword/Population. Select Keyword: Intentional/Unintentional Injuries and Population: Adolescents. Click on Start Search. Title V IS is a service of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).

  • Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS): Youth Online. Provides comprehensive results from the YRBSS that can be viewed by location (United States, state/territory, or local) and health topic. Choose Unintentional Injuries and Violence and select a category under Violence to view data about adolescent violence. Categories can be compared online. Youth Online is a service of CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH).

  • Also see the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) and the National Youth Gang Survey (NYGS).
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Special Topics

Bullying