All Work Products, Community Interventions, Cure Violence, Evaluation, Fidel Osorio, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, KL Blount-Hill, Monographs, NYC Mayor's Action Plan, Patricia Cobar, Policy & Practice Reforms, Sheyla Delgado, Violence

Designing Safety

New York City’s Department of Youth and Community Development implemented three potentially effective programs to prevent violence, reduce crime, and support resident well-being. Effective evaluations rely on detailed frameworks that guide data collection, data analysis, and the interpretation of results. To design reliable evaluations of complex programs, researchers collaborate with policymakers, agency leaders, program staff, and community residents to create detailed evaluation frameworks, revising them as necessary to account for changes in policy and practice. The evaluation frameworks presented here are draft versions offered as starting points for efforts to employ evidence-based public safety strategies in New York City. Continue reading Designing Safety

JohnJayRECNovember 10, 2023November 21, 2023

Articles, Douglas Evans, KL Blount-Hill, Michelle Cubellis, Policy & Practice Reforms

Examining Housing Discrimination Across Race, Gender and Felony History

This study uses the audit method to examine the effects of race, gender, and criminal history on housing outcomes. Testers, exhibiting characteristics suggestive of race and gender and disclosing one of three offenses, placed phone calls to rental property owners across the Midwest to inquire about renting a property. We found powerful negative effects for those with a criminal record seeking apartments, regardless of whether the offense was sexual or drug-related. Continue reading Examining Housing Discrimination Across Race, Gender and Felony History

JohnJayRECJune 26, 2018June 26, 2018

KL Blount-Hill, Other Products, Policy & Practice Reforms

Legitimacy in Decision Making: Increasing Voter Approval of Municipal Bonds

Legitimacy plays an important role in building trust in government, and legitimacy and trust have been shown to move individual citizens along a continuum of cooperation where mere compliance turns to satisfaction, support, cooperation, and, ultimately, proactive engagement. Continue reading Legitimacy in Decision Making: Increasing Voter Approval of Municipal Bonds

JohnJayRECSeptember 10, 2017September 29, 2017

KL Blount-Hill, Other Products, Policy & Practice Reforms, Victor St.John

Police Chief Magazine

The trend in policing is toward openness, transparency, and inclusiveness. In addition to policies and practices, these principles should apply to police buildings. Continue reading Police Chief Magazine

JohnJayRECMarch 30, 2017October 6, 2017

KL Blount-Hill, Victor St.John

Manufactured “Mismatch”

[P]erhaps the mismatch between Blacks and academia may be explained by the cultural incongruence of Black values with the expectations of academia. The discomfort arising from a sense of disjuncture is likely to impact scholarly performance, manufacturing “mismatch” that would not otherwise exist. Continue reading Manufactured “Mismatch”

JohnJayRECJanuary 28, 2017January 28, 2017

Alana Henninger, Caterina Roman, CBVP, Community Interventions, Douglas Evans, Emily Pelletier, Evaluation, Jeffrey Butts, Jennifer Peirce, JohnJayREC Products, Kathy Tomberg, KL Blount-Hill, Laila Alsabahi, Megan O'Toole, Michelle Cubellis, Monographs, Sheyla Delgado, Violence

Street by Street: Cross-Site Evaluation of the OJJDP Community-Based Violence Prevention Demonstration Program

While one of the strengths of OJJDP’s CBVP model was its emphasis on adaptation to local context and needs, the variation across program sites posed serious challenges for the evaluation and made it impossible to assess and compare outcomes in each city. Continue reading Street by Street: Cross-Site Evaluation of the OJJDP Community-Based Violence Prevention Demonstration Program

JohnJayRECNovember 28, 2016June 26, 2018