Max A. Greenberg is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Boston University. He is the coauthor of Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women.

"The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under."

• Acknowledgments1. In Medias Res2. How Violence Became Preventable3. Statistical Lives4. Familiar Strangers5. Stories Come Apart6. The State of AdultsEpilogue: The FutureAppendix: An Ephemeral EthnographyNotesReferencesIndex

Max A. Greenberg is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Boston University. He is the coauthor of Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women.

"The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under."

• Acknowledgments1. In Medias Res2. How Violence Became Preventable3. Statistical Lives4. Familiar Strangers5. Stories Come Apart6. The State of AdultsEpilogue: The FutureAppendix: An Ephemeral EthnographyNotesReferencesIndex

Max A. Greenberg is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Boston University. He is the coauthor of Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women.

"The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under."

• Acknowledgments1. In Medias Res2. How Violence Became Preventable3. Statistical Lives4. Familiar Strangers5. Stories Come Apart6. The State of AdultsEpilogue: The FutureAppendix: An Ephemeral EthnographyNotesReferencesIndex