Murder Is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America

"Murder is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America is a clear, compelling, and much-needed examination of what causes youth violence in small towns and big cities all over America, and how one community was able to bring many partners and pieces of a complex puzzle together to curb youth violence in its neighborhoods. This book is an important reminder that youth violence is preventable. Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Dr. Howard Spivak have written a key guide that should be read by every elected official, public health professional, community leader, advocate, and parent ready to move beyond despair or fear and take action."
--Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund

"This book is essential reading for public officials, concerned parents, and citizens. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard Spivak lay out a powerful prescription for improving the ways we deal with the youth violence that is so devastating to the victims, the children who resort to violence, and the communities where they live."
--Senator Edward M. Kennedy