Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue

Ransford, Charles; Slutkin, Gary

doi:10.1002/9781118924501.ch34

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“…Other factors, such as poverty, poor education, and family structure, should be understood as modulating factors [12]. As with other diseases, these modulating factors are important, but specific strategies for interrupting progression in a person or transmission in the community provide the best opportunities for reversal of the problem.…”

Section: Violence Is a Contagious Health Problemmentioning

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How the Health Sector Can Reduce Violence by Treating It as a Contagion

Slutkin¹,

Ransford

Zvetina

2018

AMA Journal of Ethics

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Violence is best understood as an epidemic health problem, and it can be effectively prevented and treated using health methods to stop events and outbreaks and to reduce its spread. This health framing is important because it recognizes that violence is a threat to the health of populations, that exposure to violence causes serious health problems, and that violent behavior is contagious and can be treated as a contagious process. Relatively standard and highly effective health approaches to changing behaviors and norms are increasingly being applied to the problem of violence and are showing strong evidence of impact among individuals and communities. We need to mobilize our nation's health care and public health systems and methods to work with communities and other sectors to stop this epidemic.

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Section: Violence Is a Contagious Health Problemmentioning

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“…While health and public health methods for stopping violence exist and have been proven effective, they are underutilized and under-resourced [12,13].…”

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How the Health Sector Can Reduce Violence by Treating It as a Contagion

Slutkin¹,

Ransford

Zvetina

2018

AMA Journal of Ethics

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“…Social norms are one way that violence "transmits" within groups (Ransford & Slutkin, 2016). Through the fear of social sanctions, desire to win approval, and internalization of normative behavior, perceived social norms can influence people to perpetrate, condone, or challenge violence (Bandura, 2004;Fishbein & Ajzen, 1977;Marcus & Harper, 2014).…”

Section: Mechanisms Through Which Social Norms Influence Violence In mentioning

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“…domestic violence, community violence), social and psychological processes (e.g. the rewards of complying with social norms) (Ransford & Slutkin, 2016;Rimal & Real, 2005), and insufficient structural intervention (e.g. lack of legal protections for children) (Landers, 2013).…”

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“…The perspective that programs take to address violence in childhood is central to effective social norm change. Successful interventions often use public health frameworks that conceptualize violence as an issue that can be systematically studied and prevented (Ransford & Slutkin, 2016). Cure Violence, for example, treats violence as a public health problem, transmitted between individuals and social groups through, in part, social norms.…”

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Understanding social norms and violence in childhood: theoretical underpinnings and strategies for intervention

Lilleston

Goldmann²,

Verma

et al. 2017

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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Violence in childhood is a widespread human rights violation that crosses cultural, social and economic lines. Social norms, the shared perceptions about others that exist within social groups, are a critical driver that can either prevent or perpetuate violence in childhood. This review defines injunctive and descriptive social norms and lays out a conceptual framework for the relationship between social norms and violence in childhood, including the forces shaping social norms, the mechanisms through which these norms influence violence in childhood (e.g. fear of social sanctions, internalization of normative behavior), and the drivers and maintainers of norms related to violence in childhood. It further provides a review of theory and evidence-based practices for shifting these social norms including strategic approaches (targeting social norms directly, changing attitudes to shift social norms, and changing behavior to shift social norms), core principles (e.g. using public health frameworks), and intervention strategies (e.g. engaging bystanders, involving stakeholders, using combination prevention). As a key driver of violence in childhood, social norms should be an integral component of any comprehensive effort to mitigate this threat to human rights. Understanding how people's perceptions are shaped, propagated, and, ultimately, altered is crucial to preventing violence in childhood.

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A Joined-Up Approach to Sustainable Violence Prevention?

Williams

Squires

2021

Rethinking Knife Crime

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Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue

Cited by 21 publications

References 81 publications

How the Health Sector Can Reduce Violence by Treating It as a Contagion

How the Health Sector Can Reduce Violence by Treating It as a Contagion

Understanding social norms and violence in childhood: theoretical underpinnings and strategies for intervention

A Joined-Up Approach to Sustainable Violence Prevention?

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