Associate Director Appointed to Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee
HYVPC Associate Director Dr. Angela Browne was recently named to the Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The JJAC is charged with coordinating juvenile justice and delinquency prevention efforts in the Commonwealth and with providing policy recommendations to the Governor and state legislators on juvenile justice matters.
Molnar Paper Honored by Journal
Dr. Beth Molnar's paper "A Multilevel Study of Neighborhoods and Parent-to-Child Physical Aggression" was chosen by the journal Child Maltreatment as its "Article of the Year." More information on the article and the award at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/now/oct1/conditions.html
HYVPC Director of Programs Honored
Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Director of Programs at the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center, was awarded the Donald Cressy Award by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for her "outstanding academic contributions to criminology."
Murder Is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America
A new book on the problem of youth violence, written by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, HYVPC Director of Programs, and Dr. Howard Spivak, HYVPC Affiliate Faculty, is now available. Released by Wiley Publishers, "Murder Is No Accident" describes not only the problem of violence in America, but also concrete programs that have worked to reduce and prevent violence, with a special focus on the successful turnaround in the City of Boston. Order the book from Wiley Publishers or from Amazon.com.
Book Chapter Republished
"Fear and the Perception of Alternatives: Asking 'Why Battered Women Don't Leave' Is the Wrong Question," a chapter authored by Dr. Angela Browne, Associate Director of HICRC, was republished by McGraw Hill in the third edition of The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Prisoners, Victims, and Workers, edited by Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie J. Sokoloff. More information available at the McGraw Hill web
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