NCJ Number
150927
Journal
Newsletter of the Society for the Prevention of Violence Volume: 20 Issue: 1 Dated: (Fall 1994) Pages: 1-11
Date Published
1994
Length
11 pages
Annotation
A series of articles examines the causes of and ways to prevent violence.
Abstract
The opening article by a consultant for the California Department of Education notes that local and State policymakers have neglected to include in school curriculums training in alternatives to violent behavior for resolving conflicts and problems. He advises that there needs to be a focus on ways to educate and influence children and adolescents about appropriate behaviors before attitudes and behavioral patterns conducive to violence become entrenched. Another article pursues this same theme by advocating social skills training (SST) from preschool through senior high school. Advocacy for social skills training is featured in other articles, including SST for probationers and SST in Beer-Sheva, Israel. A brief article by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan notes that the amount of deviant behavior in American society has so increased that deviancy has been redefined so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized; further, conduct previously recognized as contributing to delinquency, such as single parenthood, has become normalized. Materials for SST curricula for various grade levels are described, and ordering information is supplied.