Urban Gun Violence

Empty Lots, Green Spaces, and Other Ecologically Focused Interventions

Melvin Delgado (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6645-1 (ISBN)

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2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades. This book describes the positive impacts that urban green spaces such as repurposed vacant lots, parks, and gardens can have on reducing gun violence in marginalized urban communities.

Ecologically-focused interventions have taken center stage in addressing a range of social problems. This book synthesizes the latest research and theoretical advances of these approaches to offer multiple urban green revitalization strategies for combatting gun violence that is primarily impacting African-American/Black, Asian-American, and Latinx urban communities across the nation. Solutions include the introduction of greenspaces (greening), conversion of distressed buildings and vacant lots, and other structural changes to a community. This resource provides readers with a centralized place to draw upon research findings and includes illustrative case studies. Current and future social workers and other helping professionals will be able to work more effectively with the communities of color they serve to bolster interventions and advocate against gun violence.

Melvin Delgado, MSW, PhD, is professor of social work at Boston University. He is the former chair of Macro Practice. He has over forty years of practice, research, and scholarship focused on urban population groups, specifically within the Latinx community. Delgado’s research has addressed a variety of social issues and needs, and he has published over thirty books on urban community practice topics. He is currently the editor of the Oxford University book series on social justice and youth community practice. He is the author of Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at a Crossroads, Urban Youth Trauma: Using Community Intervention to Overcome Gun Violence, and many other books.

Acknowledgments
SECTION I: CONTEXT SETTING
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Socioecological and Community Assets: Capacity Enhancement Conceptual Foundation
Chapter 3: Community Gun Violence and Community Trauma
Chapter 4: Statistics and Strategies for Addressing Gun Violence
SECTION II: MULTIFACETED VIEWS OF VACANT LOTS
Chapter 5: Vacant Lot Remediation: Context Setting
Chapter 6: Vacant Lot Remediation
Chapter 7: Potential Benefits/Detriments of Converting Vacant Lots
SECTION III: CASE ILLUSTRATION
Chapter 8: Case Illustration (Urban Neighborhood Initiatives, Southwest Detroit)
SECTION IV: LESSONS FOR THE FIELD
Chapter 9: Research
Chapter 10: Vacant Lots: Practice and Educational Implications
References
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	9 b/w photos; 2 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 237 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-6645-3 / 1538166453
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-6645-1 / 9781538166451
Zustand	Neuware