Violence Prevention and Intervention: Coordinated Community Response

ISBN-13: 9781138690028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 200 str.

Sheetal Ranjan (William Paterson University)

Opis

Coordinated Community Response (CCR) refers to community-wide efforts to bring together relevant stakeholders to address complex social problems, such as intimate partner violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and substance abuse. While the core concepts of coordination of responses are now being applied to other social problems, there is little scholarly work detailing this application, and in many communities, there is a lack of understanding surrounding how to apply CCR to address violence prevention in general. This text is the first to address this gap in understanding by applying lessons from successful uses of CCR in relation to intimate partner violence to violence in general. Coordinated Community Response offers a holistic approach, based on an examination of the literature as well as insight gained through the author’s involvement with communities, experts, not‐for‐profits, federal agencies, and other governmental organizations such as the police and human services. Intended for a multidisciplinary audience, this text is an important reference for students and practitioners of criminal justice, public health, social work, psychology, sociology, and other related disciplines.

Spis treści

1. The Problem of Violence

2. Violence Prevention Solutions

3. Coordinated Community Response — a review of the literature  

4. The new paradigm of Coordinated Community Response

5. Best practices to start and maintain an effective Coordinated Community Response

6. Case Studies on Coordinated Community Responses

 

O autorze

Sheetal Ranjan is Associate Professor of Sociology at William Paterson University. She received her Ph.D. and Masters in Criminal Justice from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her research focuses on domestic, dating, stalking, and sexual violence. She is also interested in analysis of crime patterns using ecological theories and GIS (Geographical Information Systems). She has worked on various research projects and has many publications as well as international and national conference presentations to her credit. Ranjan primarily focuses on applied research, using her scientific study and research to solve practical problems. She has worked in the area of violence prevention for the past several years in numerous capacities: as a researcher and teacher in the area of violence prevention; as Project Director of the federally funded Department of Justice Grant ($600,000) awarded to develop the Campus Violence Prevention Project at William Paterson University; as Secretary to the New Jersey Study Commission on Violence, which released its first report in October 2015; as Principal Investigator of the Mentoring Moms program of the Volunteer Center of Bergen County, NJ; as member of the Children and Families Committee of Bergen County, NJ; as member of the Human Services Advisory Council of Bergen County, NJ; and as member of the Alternative to Domestic Violence Commission of Bergen County, NJ.