Section 14110 Of Title 10. Community Violence Prevention And Conflict Resolution From California Penal Code >> Title 10. >> Part 4.
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. The Legislature finds the following:
(a) The incidence of violence in our state continues to present an
increasing and dominating societal problem that must be addressed at
its root causes in order to reduce significantly its effects upon
our society.
(b) As an initial step toward that goal, the Legislature passed
Assembly Bill No. 23 of the 1979-80 Regular Session which created the
California Commission on Crime Control and Violence Prevention which
was charged with compiling the latest research on root causes of
violence, in order to lay the foundation for a credible, effective
violence eradication program.
(c) The commission produced a final report in 1982 entitled
"Ounces of Prevention," which established that long-term prevention
is a valuable and viable public policy and demonstrated that there
are reachable root causes of violence in our society.
(d) The report contains comprehensive findings and recommendations
in 10 broad categorical areas for the removal of individual,
familial, and societal causal factors of crime and violence in
California.
(e) The recommendations in the report are feasible and credible,
propose an effective means of resolving conflict and removing the
root causes of violence in our society, and should be implemented, so
that their value may be provided to our citizenry.