Youth violence and exposure to violence in childhood: An ecological review

This review adopts an ecological framework to examine the relationship between youth violence and the experience of child maltreatment, domestic violence, and community violence. In doing so, it builds upon and updates prior reviews of family violence and places these findings in a broad social learning context rather than intergenerational perspective. By summarizing research by subtopics and discussing the current status of knowledge regarding youth violence and childhood exposure to violence, it is hoped that this paper will assist in the development of future interdisciplinary research.