Book Review: Child Abuse and Culture: Working with Diverse Families by Lisa Aronson Fontes
Reviewed by Leslie Davidson, M.A., and John de Miranda, Ed.M.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 14, Number 5, 2007, Pages 20-21
This book review can be found in the issue:
Adolescent Violence & Victimization
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 14, Supplement, 2007
Adolescent violence and victimization has been the topic of many recent issues of The Prevention Researcher. The goal of this Resource Issue is to explore how violence is interrelated, and how we might prevent violence by examining its precursors and by empowering the people who are affected by it. Throughout, we focus primarily on violence and aggression within relationships.
This issue also featured these articles:
- • Aggression in Adolescent Dating Relationships: Predictors and Prevention, Pages 3-5
- • Cyberbullying: Q&A with Nancy Willard, Pages 13-15
- • Restorative Justice: Principles, Practices, and Application, Pages 16-17
- • The Impact of Child Maltreatment and Family Violence on the Sexual, Reproductive, and Parenting Behaviors of Young Men, Pages 8-10
- • Working with Athletes to Prevent Dating Violence: An Interview About the Family Violence Prevention Fund's "Coaching Boys into Men" Campaign, Pages 6-7
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