The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a workshop convened in January 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Prevention to explore value and application of the evidence for violence prevention across the lifespan and around the world. As part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting approaches to violence prevention, this workshop examined how existing evidence for violence prevention can continue to be expanded, disseminated, and implemented in ways that further the ultimate aims of improved individual well-being and safer communities. This report examines violence prevention interventions that have been proven to reduce different types of violence (e.g., child and elder abuse, intimate partner and sexual violence, youth and collective violence, and self-directed violence), identifies the common approaches most lacking in evidentiary support, and discusses ways that proven effective interventions can be integrated or otherwise linked with other prevention programs.

Table of Contents


Front Matter
1 Introduction
Part I: Workshop Overview
2 The Need for Evidence
3 Generating and Integrating Evidence
4 Disseminating Evidence
5 Translating Evidence into Effective Action
Part II: Papers and Commentary from Speakers
II.1 Implementation and Scaling Violence Prevention Interventions--Dean Fixsen, Karen Blase, Melissa Van Dyke, and Allison Metz
II.2 The Federal Role in Promoting Evidence-Based Violence Prevention Practices--Mary Lou Leary and Thomas P. Abt
II.3 Evidence for Global Violence Prevention During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood--Jennifer L. Matjasko and Sarah Bacon
II.4 Can Interventions Reduce Recidivism and Revictimization Following Adult Intimate Partner Violence Incidents?--Christopher D. Maxwell and Amanda L. Robinson
II.5 Integrating Evidence on Violence Prevention: An Introduction--Anthony Petrosino
II.6 Making and Using Lists of Empirically Tested Programs: Value for Violence Interventions for Progress and Impact--Patrick H. Tolan
References
Appendixes
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches