community violence

The government's worried about community violence, so are we all.

A drug endangered child may be a witness to domestic or community violence and have social problems.

This is likely in children exposed to community violence.

The office holds the responsibility of overseeing grants to combat community violence.

In places where dog fighting is outlawed, its clandestine culture is believed to be directly related to other crimes and to community violence.

Community violence - violence between individuals who are unrelated, and who may or may not know each other, generally taking place outside the home.

The program will target approximately 150 children in kindergarten through sixth grade to reduce children's attraction to and participation in chronic community violence.

Analysts spoke of their work in atypical settings: with baseball teams, in nursery schools, with police departments trying to combat community violence.

This again is most likely for children and stepchildren who experience prolonged domestic or chronic community violence that ultimately results in the death of friends and loved ones.

As the above sampling of concerns reveals, today's parents are not just worried about major transitions and traumas, such as the impact of marital breakup or community violence.

Blockades and hit-and-run community violence have tied up the city, and Tass reported that the harvest had to be suspended because of the danger in outlying agricultural areas.

He talks about how in most communities violence is a rare assurance but in the Near West Side it has become part of the daily lives of the people.

In particular, Mr. Allen had hoped for a probing inquiry into the nature of what he calls "community violence," which leads to the bloodlust shown in the pictures.

The renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, which provides for community violence prevention programs and battered women's shelters, was fiercely opposed by conservative Republicans in 2012.

Transactional models propose that youth may resort to violence more often as a result of exposure to community violence, but their predisposition towards violence also contributes to neighborhood climate.

Having a prolonged exposure to TV or movie violence might affect a viewer to the extent where they actively think community violence is a problem, or alternatively find it justifiable.

On October 23, 2010, Chief Lewis Nate declared a state of emergency because of excessive community violence and crime, including the attempted arson of the reserve's only school.

Well controlled longitudinal research indicates that children's exposure to community violence during the early elementary school years increases the risk of aggression later in elementary school, as reported by teachers and classmates.

Once in office, his first high-profile action was the creation of what he called a Rapid Response Team, which included neighborhood and community leaders mobilized in an effort to combat increasing community violence.

It requested the Mission to continue to implement quick-impact projects and, in that context, to accelerate its reorientation of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration resources towards a comprehensive community violence reduction programme.

In addition to his service as the president of the Birmingham chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Woods would often lead community marches to protest community violence, police shootings and slumlords.

The first record of community violence against blacks in Omaha occurred in 1891, when an African American man called Joe Coe was lynched by a vigilante mob for allegedly raping a white girl.

During the troubles Cliftonville came to be regarded as a Republican club due to its location along the Cliftonville Road, with road blocks and cross community violence meaning that many away supporters no longer felt safe venturing to Solitude.

"I would say that school violence is down for the same reason that community violence is on the decline: mainly, because we're finally supervising our youngsters," said Jack Levin, director of the Brudnick Center on Violence at Northeastern University.

His studies of these children were published last year in "No Place To Be a Child: Growing Up in a War Zone" and this year in "Children in Danger: Coping With the Consequences of Community Violence."