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Community Interventions, Evaluation, Gina Moreno, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Laila Alsabahi, Monographs, NYC Mayor's Action Plan, Richard Espinobarros, Sheyla Delgado, Violence, Wogod Alawlaqi

Quasi-Experimental Comparison Design for Evaluating the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety

To evaluate the New York City Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP), an initiative to improve the safety of public housing developments, researchers estimated the counterfactual (no intervention) by selecting a set of comparison housing developments not involved in the initiative. The study relied on the statistical method known as propensity score analysis (PSA) to select the comparison group. Continue reading Quasi-Experimental Comparison Design for Evaluating the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety

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1 slider, Community Interventions, Cure Violence, Evaluation, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Kevin Wolff, Laila Alsabahi, Monographs, Nicole Alexander, Patricia Cobar, Sheyla Delgado, Violence

The Effects of Cure Violence in the South Bronx and East New York, Brooklyn

Promising evidence that the public health approach to violence reduction championed by Cure Violence may be capable of creating safe and healthy communities. Continue reading The Effects of Cure Violence in the South Bronx and East New York, Brooklyn

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Cure Violence, Data Analysis, Data Bits & Research Briefs, Evaluation, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Laila Alsabahi, Sheyla Delgado, Violence

Young Men in Neighborhoods with Cure Violence Programs Adopt Attitudes Less Supportive of Violence

New York City neighborhoods operating Cure Violence programs show stronger declines in violence-endorsing attitudes than do areas without Cure Violence programs. Continue reading Young Men in Neighborhoods with Cure Violence Programs Adopt Attitudes Less Supportive of Violence

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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

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Cure Violence, Data Bits & Research Briefs, Evaluation, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Laila Alsabahi, Sheyla Delgado, Violence

Perceptions of Violence in Morrisania (The Bronx)

by Sheyla A. Delgado, Jeffrey A. Butts, and Laila Alsabahi Research & Evaluation Center August 2015 The Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice is assessing New York City’s violence reduction efforts. One element in the project involves in-person surveys with young men (ages 18-30) in various New York City neighborhoods. The survey relies on Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) and the results … Continue reading Perceptions of Violence in Morrisania (The Bronx)

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Cure Violence, Data Bits & Research Briefs, Evaluation, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Laila Alsabahi, Sheyla Delgado, Violence

Perceptions of Violence in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn)

by Sheyla A. Delgado, Jeffrey A. Butts, and Laila Alsabahi August 2015 The Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice is assessing New York City’s violence reduction efforts. One element in the project involves in-person surveys with young men (ages 18-30) in various New York City neighborhoods. The survey relies on Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) and the results depict the respondents’ attitudes … Continue reading Perceptions of Violence in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn)

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