COMMUNITY VIOLENCE - CAUSES, PREVENTION, AND INTERVENTION

This article presents some pragmatic schemata For understanding variou s types and motivations for violence. This understanding is essential to frame prevention, intervention, and postvention strategies designed to reduce the phenomena of violence in our society. Each category of violence lists examples of prevention, intervention, and postvention s trategies. This article is intended to broaden the understanding of vi olence so that strategies to address violence will become more specifi c and measurable.