RT Journal
A1 Dvoskin JA
T1 Confronting violence: Answering questions about the epidemic destroying america's homes and communities
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2011
FD September 14
VO 306
IS 10
SP 1145
OP 1146
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.1302
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1302
AB 
Perhaps my favorite aspect of this book is the application of a public health perspective to interpersonal violence and suicide, a perspective with which I enthusiastically agree. Indeed, it represents society's only hope of getting a handle on this peculiarly American phenomenon and, more importantly, on how to reduce it. The United States' 40-year experiment in mass incarceration has had little direct effect on reducing violent crime. Worse, its indirect effects may have increased risk and helped produce a generation of poor, largely fatherless minority children and unhirable ex-convicts who were already at a vocational disadvantage. George Gellert's preventive, public health perspective provides readers with the information needed to reduce violence at its source.