TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - The ecological context of interpersonal violence: from culture to collective efficacy
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Almgren, Gunnar
SP  - 218
EP  - 224
VL  - 20
IS  - 2
N2  - This brief essay outlines the progression over the last 20 years of ecological theories of interpersonal violence. The period between the present and the early 1980s began with a revival of cultural explanations of violence that paralleled the introduction of the neo-conservative social science and then witnessed a rediscovery of deficits based structural explanations of interpersonal violence under the broad rubric of social disorganization theory. The essay concludes with a more optimistic appraisal of recent refinements of social disorganization theory that consider the mediating effects of collective efficacy on urban crime and interpersonal violence.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260504267741
ID  - ref1
ER  -