Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention

• Section 1: An introduction to the study of violence as a public health issue


• 1: Peter D. Donnelly and Catherine L. Ward: Interpersonal violence and its importance as a global public health issue


• Section 2: The descriptive epidemiology of violence


• 2: Richard Matzopoulos, Kavi Bhalla, and James Harrison: Homicide


• 3: Melissa T. Merrick, Beverly L. Fortson, and James A. Mercy: The epidemiology of child maltreatment


• 4: Catherine L. Ward: Youth violence


• 5: Richard E. Tremblay: Developmental origins of physical aggression


• 6: Heidi Stöckl, Karen Devries, and Charlotte Watts: The epidemiology of intimate partner violence


• 7: Naeemah Abrahams, Karen Devries, Charlotte Watts, Christina Pallitto, Max Petzold, Simukai Shamu, and Claudia Garcia-Moreno: Prevalence of non-partner sexual violence: a review of global data


• 8: Francesco Mitis and Dinesh Sethi: Male on male violence


• 9: Bridget Penhale and Isabel Iborra: The epidemiology of elder abuse


• 10: Jorja Leap: Beyond convention: anthropology, drugs, and violence


• 11: Vania Ceccato: The geographic, socio-economic and cultural determinants of violence


• Section 3: The consequences of violence


• 12: Megan Prinsloo, Debbie Bradshaw, and Ian Neethling: The consequences of violence: assessing the health burden of violence


• 13: Sue Hawkridge, Astrid Berg, and Soraya Seedat: The consequences of violence: mental health issues


• 14: Robin S. Engel and Jeffrey E. Clutter: Violence, police, and criminal justice Systems


• 15: Phaedra Corso and Nathanial Taylor: The economic costs of violence


• 16: Ross Deuchar: Violence and the education system


• Section 4: Evidence-informed programmes to reduce violence

Peter Donnelly joined the University of St Andrews as Professor of Public Health Medicine in 2008. His research focuses on violence reduction and the evaluating gang member rehabilitation initiative in Glasgow, conducting pilot studies of technology aimed at reducing alcohol related violence, and exploring sports event related domestic abuse. Peter's other area of interest is in Health Systems; their organisation, funding, governance and accountability and how they can be optimised to maximise patient benefit and to reduce health inequalities. He chairs the steering group of the Scottish clinical leadership development program and is a member of the NHS Scotland leadership board. He is a member of the technical board of Milbank Memorial Fund and is on the steering group of the WHO Violence Prevention Alliance. From 2004 -2008 he was Deputy Chief Medical Officer to the Scottish Government. Peter has recently been appointed as President/Chief Executive Officer of Public Health Ontario.

Catherine L. Ward is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina, USA. Her research interests are in violence prevention from the perspective of children's development, and particularly in public health approaches to this.

Cathy serves on the Steering Committee of the University of Cape Town's Safety and Violence Initiative, an interdisciplinary research initiative that seeks to understand violence and promote safety. The Safety and Violence Initiative is a member of the World Health Organization's Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), and Cathy herself co-leads the VPA Parenting Project Group with Christopher Mikton from WHO and Theresa Kilbane from UNICEF. In addition, she is on the Editorial Boards for the South African Crime Quarterly, Psychosocial Interventions, and Child Abuse and Neglect journals.

Highly commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards 2015