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"The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under." * Process North *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

1. In Medias Res
2. How Violence Became Preventable
3. Statistical Lives
4. Familiar Strangers
5. Stories Come Apart
6. The State of Adults
Epilogue: The Future
Appendix: An Ephemeral Ethnography

Notes
References
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 12/02/2019
      ISBN13: 9780520297746, 978-0520297746
      ISBN10: 0520297741
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      Crime and criminology Population and demography Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under." * Process North *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments

      1. In Medias Res
      2. How Violence Became Preventable
      3. Statistical Lives
      4. Familiar Strangers
      5. Stories Come Apart
      6. The State of Adults
      Epilogue: The Future
      Appendix: An Ephemeral Ethnography

      Notes
      References
      Index

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