Social Development and Public Governance > Social Development > Violence Prevention
Links to Other Sites
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Publications: USA
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Violence Prevention
- Center for the Study and Prevention of Crime
University of Colorado at Boulder
- International Centre for the Prevention of Crime
- International Society for Research on Agression
- Isis Internacional - Violence against Women (in Spanish)
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, OJJDP
The OJJDP is pleased to submit this report on OJJDP's Juvenile Violence Research Studies to the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate
- Population Reports: Ending Violence Against Women
Around the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Most often the abuser is a member of her own family.
- Surgeon General Office: Youth Violence Report
Examines the factors that lead young people to gravitate toward violence, reviews the factors that protect youth from perpetrating violence and identifies effective research-based preventive strategies.
- University of Virginia: Virginia Youth Violence Project
What Works in Youth Violence Prevention: A selective overview of prevention strategies found to reduce juvenile violence and associated problems such as substance abuse, property crime, and disruptive behavior.
- University of Texas at Austin: Latin American Network Information Center
Rising Violence and the Criminal Justice Response in Latin America: Towards an Agenda for Collaborative Research in the 21st Century.
- USA Agency for International Development (USAID)
Conflict and Development
- World Bank - The Economics of Civil Wars, Crime and Violence
- World Bank - Violence against Women
- World Health Organization - Violence against Women
Violence against women and girls is a major health and human rights concern. While violence has severe health consequences for the affected, it is a social problem that warrants an immediate coordinated response from multiple sectors.
- World Health Organization - World Report on Violence and Health
Last updated: 05/01/07
