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Breaking the Cycle

A Culturally Sensitive Violence Prevention Program for African-American Children and Adolescents

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Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment

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Although our knowledge of violence prevalence is far from complete, there is virtually no question that male and female African Americans of all ages are consistently overrepresented as the victims and perpetrators of interpersonal violence. This fact appears to hold true across the continuum of severity, from relatively inconsequential fights among school children to the violent deaths reflected annually in national mortality data. Evidence further suggests that within African-American families and communities there is a greater reported incidence of violent acts affecting all types of relationships (spouse/partner, parent/child, and youth and their peers) than is found among all other groups.

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  1. School of Professional Psychology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 45407, USA

    Betty R. Yung

  2. Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-3724, USA

    W. Rodney Hammond

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Yung, B.R., Hammond, W.R. (1998). Breaking the Cycle. In: Lutzker, J.R. (eds) Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2909-2_13

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