The following are brief descriptions of reports, articles and books related to the curing and preventing of violence. The report, book or article will open in another window when you click on its title.

Early Intervention: Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens
This booklet, by Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith and Labour MP Graham Allen, and published jointly in 2008 by the Centre for Social Justice and the Smith Institute, calls on all political parties to unite around the policy of Early Intervention. It has been described by Labour MP Frank Field as 'the most important report, official or unoffical, produced in Parliament since [he] became a member 30 years ago'

What You Can Do
Twelve ways you can help to reduce violence.

Child's First Three Years are Key to Cutting Violent Crime
In an article in The Herald [(Glasgow) www.theherald.co.uk © Newsquest Media Group] on 11^th October 2006 Detective Chief Superintendent John Carnochan discusses his belief that investing in providing early-years support is crucial to the creation of a safer Scotland. (NOTE: this link opens in another window.)

O-5: How Small Children Make a Big Difference
A paper in the Provocation Series by Alan Sinclair, CBE; Visiting Fellow, The Work Foundation, UK. This paper demonstrates how vital the early years are to good economics, social mobility, quality of life, and, consequently, government plans for modernisation and reform. It explores each of these in turn and shows why parenting and early year enrichment makes such a big difference. (NOTE: this link opens in another window.)

Hawai'i Healthy Start
The Hawai'i Healthy Start program uses some visitors from the community to provide services to at-risk families. Its goals are to reduce family stress and improve family functioning, improve parenting skills, enhance child health and development, and prevent abuse and neglect.

How to Reduce Violence and Improve Relationships
Recommendations from a workshop with that title at the 1996 Annual Conference of the UK Parenting Education and Support Forum in London, U.K.