Strategies for Preventing Neighborhood Violence: Toward Bringing Collective Efficacy into Social Work Practice

Journal of Community Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 225-240

  Beck, Elizabeth ^a   Ohmer, Mary ^a   Warner, Barbara ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collective efficacy; community organization; neighborhood development; restorative justice; violence prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865830996     PISSN: 10705422     EISSN: 15433706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2012.700278     Document Type: Article

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