Category: Violence

Data Analysis, Data Bits & Research Briefs, Gina Moreno, Jeffrey Butts, Richard Espinobarros, Violence, Violence Tracker

Neighbors at Risk

by JohnJayREC

Shooting incidents reported in each New York City census block group were divided over the population to create yearly rates of shooting incidents. Researchers then ranked all CBGs based on their rates of shooting incidents and identified the 50 CBGs with the highest rates in each year from 2015 to 2021.

Evaluation, Press Coverage, Violence

The Trace — There Are Only Two City-Funded Violence Prevention Sites Tackling Surging Violence in Upper Manhattan

by JohnJayREC

Studies conducted of two CMS sites by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Research and Evaluation Center found that, in addition to a decline in shootings over two years, trust in law enforcement increased, and fewer people turned to violence. "Over time, attitudes did change, especially in the Cure Violence neighborhoods,” said Sheyla Delgado, a researcher at John Jay who has coauthored several CMS studies.

Crime Data Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Bits & Research Briefs, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Richard Espinobarros, Violence, Violence Tracker

Shooting Surge Continuing to Slow Across New York City

by JohnJayREC

Shooting trends in New York City remain a serious concern, but recent quarter-specific, one-year differences declined for three straight quarters from October 2020 through June 2021.

Arnold Ventures 2020, Caterina Roman, Evaluation, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Monographs, Violence, Work Products by Project

Reducing Violence Without Police: A Review of Research Evidence

by JohnJayREC

Arnold Ventures asked the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice to review and summarize the research evidence for policies and programs that reduce community violence without relying on police.

Community Interventions, Crime Data Analysis, Cure Violence, Data Analysis, Data Bits & Research Briefs, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Policy & Practice Reforms, Sheyla Delgado, Violence, Violence Tracker

Reducing Gun Violence in New York City

by JohnJayREC

Causal relationships are difficult to identify in complex and multi-part initiatives, but New York City’s falling rate of gun violence suggests that recent community initiatives may have helped to sustain previous gains.

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

Reported Crime in MAP Communities Compared with Other NYC Areas

by JohnJayREC

A rigorous test of the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety indicates that New York City’s effort to improve the safety of public housing communities was beginning to show benefits by the end of 2019 and could be considered a promising intervention.

Data Bits & Research Briefs, Edda Fransdottir, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Monographs, Violence, Violence Tracker

Who Pays for Gun Violence? You Do.

by JohnJayREC

Gun violence affects far more people than those wounded directly. Victims’ families suffer mental, emotional, and financial costs as well. The cost of gun violence extends beyond the immediate medical consequences and the public pays.

Community Interventions, Evaluation, Gina Moreno, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Monographs, NYC Mayor's Action Plan, Sheyla Delgado, Violence

Opinions and Perceptions of Residents in New York City Public Housing

by JohnJayREC

As part of an evaluation of the New York City Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP), researchers from John Jay College of Criminal Justice collaborated with survey specialists from NORC at the University Chicago to collect data from two probability samples of residents in public housing developments in New York City. One sample of residents came from communities involved in the MAP initiative. A second sample was from statistically matched housing developments not involved in MAP.

Angela Silletti, Anthony Vega, Community Interventions, Evaluation, Jeffrey Butts, John Roman, JohnJayREC Products, Monographs, NYC Mayor's Action Plan, Violence, Wogod Alawlaqi

Measurement Plan and Analytic Strategies for Evaluating the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety

by JohnJayREC

This second in a series of reports about the evaluation of the New York City Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP). This Evaluation Update: summarizes the goals and methods used to evaluate the Mayor’s Action Plan; describes the quasi-experimental design used to test the outcomes and impacts of MAP as well as the data sources assembled by the research team and how they are used; and portrays a logical framework the research team used initially to identify causal pathways through which various elements of MAP were intended to achieve their desired effect.

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

by JohnJayREC

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.

1, 1 slider, Anthony Vega, Douglas Evans, JohnJayREC Products, Monographs, Violence

Critical Care: The Important Role of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs

by JohnJayREC

Douglas Evans and Anthony Vega In Denormalizing Violence: A Series of Reports From the John Jay College Evaluation of Cure Violence Programs in New York City Introduction Crime has been decreasing since the mid-1990s, but violence is still a serious concern in many neighborhoods throughout the United States. Victims of violence often suffer psychological trauma [...]

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

by JohnJayREC

Promising evidence that the public health approach to violence reduction championed by Cure Violence may be capable of creating safe and healthy communities.

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

by JohnJayREC

New York City neighborhoods operating Cure Violence programs show stronger declines in violence-endorsing attitudes than do areas without Cure Violence programs.

Alana Henninger, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Monographs, NFYVP, Violence

Local Measures

by JohnJayREC

Data infrastructures for tracking youth violence in the United States do not provide a clear view of neighborhood-level change, but the most effective strategies for dealing with youth violence inevitably focus on small areas like neighborhoods. This makes it essential to measure the effects of violence prevention efforts at the neighborhood level as well.

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

by JohnJayREC

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.

Cure Violence, Jeffrey Butts, Other Products, Presentations, Violence

Evaluating the Cure Violence Model in New York City

by JohnJayREC

https://youtu.be/IkCFHIlhkiA&rel=0 Discussion at a community roundtable organized by the National Academies of Sciences. Also watch the session following the presentations in which Jeffrey Butts and Daniel Webster respond to audience questions. Read more about the products of the evaluation.