To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility


Appendix 2
Table of Contents of the Forthcoming Book

 

To Establish Justice, to Insure Domestic Tranquility

A Thirty Year Update of the National Commission
on the Causes and Prevention of Violence

Edited by Lynn A. Curtis

Dedicated to A. Leon Higginbotham and Marvin E. Wolfgang

Foreword
Fred R. Graham, Chief Anchor and Managing Director, Court Television, New York

Hugh Davis Graham, Holland N. McTyeire, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville

Introduction and Executive Summary
Lynn A. Curtis, President and CEO, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, Washington, DC

Part I: Assessments Thirty Years Later

1. The Extent and Character of Violent Crime in America
Vera Y. Huang, Research Specialist, Center for the Study of Youth Policy, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Neil Alan Weiner, Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Youth Policy, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Rosalinda Rendon, Research Coordinator, Center for the Study of Youth Policy, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2. American Violence Since the Violence Commission: Regaining Perspective
Elliott Currie, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

3. An Outsider's Understanding of American Violence: Tocqueville Revisited
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Professor of Political Science and American Studies, The Sorbonne, Paris

Part II: The City, Poverty, Youth and Culture

4. Has the Commission's "City of the Future" Come To Pass?
Paul A. Jargowsky, Associate Professor of Political Economy, School of Social Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas

5. Violence in the African-American Community
James P. Comer, Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Joseph F. West, Department of Health, and Social Behavior School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge

6. Hispanics, Youth, the Commission and the Present
Dora Nevares-Muniz, Professor of Law and Criminology, Inter-American University Law School, San Juan

7. Native Americans, Youth, the Commission and the Present
Fred R. Harris, Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Laura Harris, Executive Vice President, Americans for Indian Opportunity, Albuquerque

Part III Prevention Policy

8. New Concepts of Prevention
Joy G. Dryfoos, Independent Researcher and Consultant, Hastings on Hudson, NY

9. Economic Policy in Support of What Works
Jeff Faux, President, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC

Part IV: Criminal Justice System Policy

10. Policing and Its Discontents
Jerome H. Skolnick, Adjunct Professor of Law, Co-Director, Center for Research in Crime and Justice, New York University School of Law, New York

Abigail Caplovitz, Leslie Glass Fellow, New York University School of Law, New York

11. Prison
JoAnne Page, President, The Fortune Society, New York

12. Firearms Policy
Shannon Frattaroli, Kellogg Community Health Scholar, Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Stephen P. Teret, Director, Center for Gun Policy and Research, Professor, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Part V: Media Policy

13. The Violence Commission and Media
George Gerbner, Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications, Temple University, Philadelphia

Robert W. McChesney, Research Associate Professor, Institute of Communications Research, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

14. Communicating What Works: Leveling the Media Playing Field

Leila McDowell, Co-Founder, McKinney and McDowell Associates, Washington, DC

Part VI: Resources and Political Will

15. National Policy, Resources and Political Will
Lynn A. Curtis, President and CEO, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, Washington, DC

About the Authors
Footnotes
Bibliography
Index

 

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