Community-Led Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence
Building the CVI evidence base for the future will require theoretically informed, intentionally causal evaluation studies. Continue reading Community-Led Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence
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The Untold Impact of Nonviolence Work: How Success Gets Measured in Chicago’s Hardest-Hit Neighborhoods
“When you answer questions about violence and point to individuals at high risk, that makes politicians happy because they can blame those other people,” Butts said. “There are politicians who live off of getting one group of people to vote against the other group, and this individual-level approach sustains that political energy.” Continue reading The Untold Impact of Nonviolence Work: How Success Gets Measured in Chicago’s Hardest-Hit Neighborhoods
What Researchers Are Thinking When You Tell Us About Some Success You’ve Had
If you work in social policy or community programs, you’ve probably had a researcher roll their eyes or scoff when you tell them about some success you had. Continue reading What Researchers Are Thinking When You Tell Us About Some Success You’ve Had
A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventing
In Baton Rouge, a public safety experiment could help to answer a critical question: Do community efforts to reduce street violence work? New York Timesby Mark ObbiePhotographs by Dean MajdBaton Rouge, LAApril 22, 2024 … [I]n 1999, a Chicago epidemiologist named Gary Slutkin picked up an old idea of using outreach workers to mediate street disputes. Framing the problem in public health terms, he argued … Continue reading A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventing
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