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  • Chapter 7 - Settling the Score in a Zero-Sum Game

  • Edited by Holly Recchia, Concordia University, Montréal, Cecilia Wainryb, University of Utah
  • Book:
    Revenge across Childhood and Adolescence
    Published online:
    08 July 2021
    Print publication:
    22 July 2021, pp 161-186

  • Summary

    Adolescent development is strained by exposure to community violence, especially when shootings and killings happen in public spaces such as the street or popular locations where young people hangout. This chapter examines revenge violence from a situational-transactional framework by focusing on accounts of marginalized urban youth overly exposed to gun violence. Revenge-sparked events are linked to a prior negative interaction. The aftermath of the prior incident can proceed in somewhat predictable ways with participants assessing damage, stewing about the conflict, planning revenge, casting co-offenders, brewing on the issue until the right opportunity comes up, and initiating the revenge incident. Four main themes emerge to illustrate how scripts favorable to seeking revenge or anticipating revenge are internalized by young men living in unsafe urban neighborhoods. Insights about the transactional dynamic of retaliatory violence should be used in formulating holistic community-based solutions, individual-level outreach interventions, and practitioner efforts to reduce urban violence.