Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, USA.
Am J Prev Med. 2012 Aug;43(2 Suppl 1):S1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.04.026.
The CDC Expert Panel on Protective Factors for Youth Violence Perpetration was convened to review and advance the status of etiologic and prevention research on direct protective and buffering protective factors for youth violence perpetration. The current paper introduces Phase One of the panel's work, which focuses on direct protective factors and includes the papers in this supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This paper provides the context for the panel's work, describes its practical and theoretic importance, and summarizes why independently defined direct protective factors and risk factors are important for the advancement of our understanding of youth violence and its prevention. Lastly, this paper briefly describes the organization of the work of the panel as well as the research products that comprise the contents of the supplement.
美国疾病预防控制中心(CDC)青少年暴力犯罪预防因素专家组召集会议,旨在审查和推进有关青少年暴力犯罪直接保护因素和缓冲保护因素的病因学和预防研究现状。本期特刊中的论文介绍了专家组工作的第一阶段,重点关注直接保护因素。本文为专家组的工作提供了背景,描述了其实际和理论重要性,并总结了独立定义的直接保护因素和风险因素对于增进我们对青少年暴力及其预防的理解的重要性。最后,本文简要介绍了专家组的工作组织以及特刊内容所包含的研究成果。