Preventing Violence

Keir Irwin-Rogers is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University.Luke Billingham is a youth and community worker at Hackney Quest and Research Associate at The Open University.Alistair Fraser is Professor of Criminology at the University of Glasgow.Fern Gillon is Research Assistant at the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research at the University of Strathclyde. Susan McVie is Professor of Quantitative Criminology at the University of Edinburgh.Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics.

• IntroductionPart 1: A Short History of the Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention1. Roots and Shoots of the Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention2. Recent Developments in England and WalesPart 2: Violence Reduction Units3. Bedding In, Reaching Out4. Aiming Upstream, Slipping DownstreamPart 3: Looking Ahead5. Where Should We Go From Here?

'Deeply insightful, carefully researched and important. A major contribution to our understanding of youth violence prevention, with implications far beyond the United Kingdom.' Elliott Currie, University of California, Irvine