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Search - The Web of Violence: Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse (SpringerBriefs in Sociology)

The Web of Violence Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse - SpringerBriefs in Sociology
Author: Sherry Hamby, John Grych

There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence, and a number of initiatives are emerging to address these interconnections. A new organization, the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV), formed in 2008 and now has over 200 member organizations that are working to better coordinate res... more »ponses to all forms of violence. We serve as the Research Action Team chairs for NPEIV. The American Psychological Association established a new journal, Psychology of Violence, which began publication in January and is a new forum for research on all types of interpersonal violence. Dr. Grych is co-editing a special issue on the co-occurrence of violence that will draw further attention to this issue. The National Survey of Children?s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) has also drawn attention to the interconnections among forms of violence. NatSCEV data have become a cornerstone for Attorney General Eric Holder?s Defending Childhood Initiative. One of the primary goals of Holder?s initiative is to press for a more integrated approach to violence research and intervention and to provide an alternative to the increasingly fragmentary and specialized approaches of the many subdisciplines. All forms of violence have unique dynamics, and to some extent a full appreciation of these unique aspects is well served by specialization. Nonetheless, there are also many commonalities across forms of violence. In the current state of the field, we are more in danger of losing sight of these commonalities and interconnections than we are at risk of failing to recognize uniqueness. The existing disciplinary fragmentation into subtypes of violence has a number of negative effects (Hamby & Finkelhor, 2000). We are only beginning to understand how commonly different types of violence co-occur, the causal pathways among different forms of violence, and the additive or even interactive effects that occur when people experience, or participate in, more than one form (e.g., Grych & Kinsfogel, 2010). Although researchers often draw samples based on a specific form of violence, such as sexual assault or dating violence, in fact many, and in some cases most, of the individuals in one sample could just as easily be labelled as another type of victim or perpetrator. For example, in the National Survey of Children?s Exposure to Violence, 70% of children who had experienced sexual assault by any known adult had also witnessed physical violence between their parents (Hamby, Finkelhor, Turner, & Ormrod, 2010). Service delivery is similarly fragmented. A child might have a case manager at child protective services, a family therapist through an HMO, anti-bullying programming at school, anti-depressants from her pediatrician, and conflict resolution at church or scouts. Many of these providers might not even be aware of the other interventions the child is receiving. Simultaneously, it would not be unusual for the child?s parents to be receiving multiple, uncoordinated services. The "home" of many interventions has arisen at least in part through historical accident and sometimes in response to crisis, rather than through purposeful, coordinated institutional design. Although, again, as in research, some specialization is doubtless warranted, a more coordinated approach with greater appreciation of overlapping goals and efforts would surely be beneficial.

ISBN-13: 9789400755956
ISBN-10: 9400755953
Publication Date: 10/31/2012
Pages: 144
Edition: 2013
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