Publication in the NIJ Journal No. 273 about how police chiefs, public health directors, and researchers are establishing innovative public health/public safety collaborations to fight crime.
Article in the COPS Dispatch about the release of “Law Enforcement and Public Health: Sharing Resources and Strategies to Make Communities Safer,” which summarizes the first in a series of roundtable discussions on burgeoning public health and public safety collaborations across the country.
"Seeding Change" looks at how public health agencies and law enforcement can work together to improve communities. The report is the product of partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, The California Endowment, and the Center for Court Innovation.
This fact-sheet summary of the research publication, Testing a Public Health Approach to Gun Violence, outlines an evaluation of Save Our Streets (SOS), a community-based project established to address the problem of gunviolence in Crown Heights, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
The Center for Court Innovation’s Sarah Picard-Fritsche and Lenore Lebron recently completed an evaluation of Crown Heights “Save Our Streets” program, a gun violence reduction initiative. Aubrey Fox asked them to summarize findings from their research.
This report presents the results of a comprehensive impact and process evaluation of the anti-violence initiative Save Our Streets, which started in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 2010. Results demonstrate that the initiative had a statistically significant impact on gun violence trends in Crown Heights when compared with three similar precincts in Brooklyn.
This report documents a gun violence prevention program and finds high levels of cynicism regarding the fairness and effectiveness of the justice system among residents of the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn.
A look at how public health principles, practices, and resources can support law enforcement. This report is based on a moderated discussion sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, The California Endowment, and the Center for Court Innovation.
Sociologist Andrew Papachristos focuses his studies on urban neighborhoods, social networks, street gangs, violent crime, and gun violence. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University, Andrew will expand his use of network analysis to study crime in U.S. cities, paying particular attention to the way violence diffuses among populations of youth. During a break in a roundtable on collaborations between public health and public safety, he discusses how social network analysis can aid crime prevention.
