Canaries in the coal mine: Interpersonal violence, gang violence, and violent extremism through a public health prevention lens

@article{Eisenman2017CanariesIT,
  title={Canaries in the coal mine: Interpersonal violence, gang violence, and violent extremism through a public health prevention lens},
  author={David P. Eisenman and Louise Flavahan},
  journal={International Review of Psychiatry},
  year={2017},
  volume={29},
  pages={341 - 349}
}
Abstract This paper asks what programmes and policies for preventing violent extremism (also called ‘countering violent extremism’, or CVE) can learn from the public health violence prevention field. The general answer is that addressing violent extremism within the wider domain of public health violence prevention connects the effort to a relevant field of research, evidence-based policy and programming, and a broader population reach. This answer is reached by examining conceptual alignments… 
View on Taylor & Francis
cphd.ph.ucla.edu
22 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
2
Background Citations
9
Results Citations
1

22 Citations

Citation Type

Citation Type

Current Challenges in Addressing Youth Mental Health in the Context of Violent Radicalization.
  • C. Rousseau, G. Hassan
  • Political Science
    Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • 2019
A scoping review of interventions for preventing and countering violent extremism: Current status and implications for future research
TLDR
There is a lack of evidence-based interventions that focus on C/PVE and future research should focus on evaluating the comparative effectiveness of outcomes that are relevant to C-PVE in order to fill this knowledge gap.
Radicalization to Violence: A View from Cultural Psychiatry
This article introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry with selected papers from the McGill Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry on “Pluralism and Polarization: Cultural…
Personality, identity, risk and radicalisation
  • M. Freestone
  • Political Science
    International review of psychiatry
  • 2017
TLDR
To understand and combat violent radicalization, it is important to look beyond psychopathology and exceptionalism and situate the radicalization process in context, and ask what the study of personality, in a normative sense not restricted to ‘personality disorder’, and particularly identity as a component of Personality, might bring to this inquiry.
From social adversity to sympathy for violent radicalization: the role of depression, religiosity and social support
TLDR
The results suggest that prevention programs should consider violent radicalization as a systemic issue which involves both minorities and the majority, although the specific balance between risk and protective factors may be influenced by local dynamics.
The role of physicians in the violence epidemic
TLDR
It is argued that physicians should play a role in advocating for gun control, and that strategies that are adapted to local and national social contexts are needed.
Occurrence of Psychiatric Disorders, Self-Sufficiency Problems and Adverse Childhood Experiences in a Population Suspected of Violent Extremism
TLDR
An accumulation of social and psychiatric problems in people suspected of violent extremism underlines the importance of professionals in health and social care being actively involved in developing CVE approaches.
Transnational evaluation of the Sympathy for Violent Radicalization Scale: Measuring population attitudes toward violent radicalization in two countries
TLDR
Examination of the psychometric properties of the Sympathy for Violent Radicalization Scale (SyfoR), a measure developed for use with Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrant groups in the UK, in two convenience samples of youth and young adults in North America and Western Europe indicates that a reduced, 8-item version of thesyfoR has a 3-factor structure with good model fit statistics using confirmatory factor analysis and good internal consistency reliability.
Not in Their Right Mind? Right-Wing Extremism Is Not a Mental Illness, but Still a Challenge for Psychiatry
Most research in psychiatry on extremism focuses on the question whether there is a connection between extremism and psychiatric diagnoses. In addition, practitioners are increasingly asked to take…
Evaluation of a training program on the prevention of violent radicalization for health and education professionals
TLDR
The mixed-method evaluation indicated that the participants felt the training increased their level of confidence in dealing with VR in their work, and shifted participants’ attitudes significantly on four items with decreases.
...
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 47 REFERENCES
Preventing violence: a guide to implementing the recommendations of the World Report on Violence and Health.
Interpersonal violence is violence between individuals or small groups of individuals. It is an insidious and frequently deadly social problem and includes child maltreatment youth violence intimate…
Addressing violent extremism as public health policy and practice
TLDR
The Center for Disease Control’s Ten Essential Public Health Services is proposed as a new conceptual framework for a public health approach to addressing violent extremism which aims for policy and practice shifts.
Preventing violence and reducing its impact: how development agencies can help
  • C. Mikton
  • Political Science
    Injury Prevention
  • 2008
TLDR
Research is beginning to show that the much larger indirect economic costs of violence due to lost productivity and lost opportunity impede development, exacerbate socioeconomic inequality, and erode human and social capital.
Cure violence: a public health model to reduce gun violence.
TLDR
The theoretical basis for the Cure Violence program is described, existing program evaluations are reviewed, several challenges facing evaluators are identified, and directions for future research are offered.
An integrated public health and criminal justice approach to gangs: What can research tell us?
  • Erika Gebo
  • Law, Political Science
    Preventive medicine reports
  • 2016
A public health approach to understanding and preventing violent radicalization
TLDR
Informed by public health research and practice, a new approach is proposed to target populations vulnerable to recruitment, rather than rely only on research of well known terrorist groups and individual perpetrators of terrorist acts.
Building resilience to violent extremism in Muslim diaspora communities in the United States
Can violent extremism be countered through community-level interventions in Muslim diaspora communities in the US? Statements from US policymakers say it can be done through a focus on enhancing…
Understanding and Tackling Gang Violence
Gang-involved shootings comprise a serious problem. A Manchester-based project addressing the issue was tracked and its development is discussed. The initiative moved from a planned focus on the…
Relation of psychosocial factors to diverse behaviors and attitudes among Somali refugees.
TLDR
Using latent profile analysis to examine the ways in which delinquency, gang involvement, civic engagement, political engagement, and openness to violent extremism cluster among Somali refugees indicates that participants fall into 5 distinct groups, and that social-contextual and individual factors are uniquely related to those groups.
“I’m down for a Jihad”: How 100 Years of Gang Research can inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism
One of the difficult tasks in the social sciences is integrative, interdisciplinary work. There are many commonalities across the social sciences in method, theory, and policy. The study of gangs has…
...
...