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Collaborative ACE Book Addresses Ethnicity and Culture in
Youth Violence
Prevention
Preventing Youth Violence in a Multicultural Society is a
new collaboration
by several researchers from the CDC's Academic Centers of
Excellence on
Youth Violence Prevention, or ACEs
(http:/
/www.safeyouth.org/scripts/ace/index.asp). This book
considers how to
approach ethnicity and culture when designing and
implementing youth
violence prevention programs, and discusses special
considerations for
different ethnic groups.
Chapters explore how ethnicity and culture can increase or
decrease the risk
of youth violence depending on factors such as a
disadvantaged upbringing,
exposure to trauma, and degree of acculturation.
Authors focus on the interaction between environmental
conditions and the
individual risk factors that foster youth violence. They
begin by examining
risk factors common to all groups of youth, such as feeling
alienated from
mainstream culture and searching for self-identity, and then
focus on risk,
resilience, and distinguishing factors among particular
racial and ethnic
groups, including Latino, African American, Asian American,
Pacific
Islander, American Indian, and White youth. The authors
suggest
interventions tailored to each group, and advise how to
incorporate cultural
competence into more general youth violence prevention
programs.
This book is of interest to mental health care providers,
educators,
community agencies, juvenile justice and probation
departments, schools,
foundations, and government funding agencies.
Preventing Youth Violence in a Multicultural Society
http://www.apa.
org/books/4316064.html
Table of Contents
Introduction
Emilie Phillips Smith and Nancy G. Guerra
Section I. Understanding youth violence and prevention in
context: The role
of ethnicity and culture
Chapter 1. Ethnicity, violence, and the ecology of
development
Nancy G. Guerra and Kirk R. Williams
Chapter 2. Ethnic identity, social group membership, and
youth violence
Sabine E. French, Tia E. Kim, and Olivia Pillado
Chapter 3. Youth violence, immigration, and acculturation
Ioakim Boutakidis, Nancy Guerra, and Fernando Soriano
Section II. Youth violence and prevention in specific ethnic
groups
Chapter 4. Youth violence prevention among Latino youth
Brenda Mirabal-Colón and Carmen Noemi Velez
Chapter 5. Youth violence prevention among Asian American
and Pacific
Islander Youth
Gregory Yee Mark, Linda A. Revilla, Thomas Tsutsumoto, and
David May
Chapter 6. Understanding American Indian youth violence and
prevention
Samantha Hurst and Jack Laird
Chapter 7. Preventing Youth Violence Among African American
Youth: The
Socio-Cultural Context of Risk and Protective Factors
Emilie Phillips Smith and La Mar Hasbrouck
Chapter 8. Youth violence prevention among White youth
Robert Nash Parker and Louis Tuthill
Section III. Developing culturally-competent youth violence
prevention
programs and strategies
Chapter 9. Culturally-sensitive interventions to prevent
youth violence
Joan C. Wright and Marc A. Zimmerman
Chapter 10. What is cultural competence and how can it be
incorporated into
preventive interventions?
Cynthia Hudley and April Taylor
Chapter 11. Preventing youth violence in a multicultural
society: Future
directions
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