> which uses a public health approach to target all forms of violent behaviour including street/gang violence, domestic abuse, school bullying and workplace bullying.
What's this mean exactly?
What's this mean exactly?
- there's an epidemiology of violence: untreated violence tends to breed more violence. Fear of violence and responses to violence cause violence of their own. Either retaliation or pre-emptively carrying weapons.
- squalor tends to breed violence in the same way as it breeds disease
- this stuff often starts at school (see US "school to prison pipeline")
- A&E departments of hospitals are convenient contact points for people who've been stabbed or punched - this is an opportunity to discourage them from taking revenge or starting more fights
- also it recognises that the effectiveness of police before a crime has been committed is (rightly) pretty limited, but social services can perform other kinds of interventions.