Category: Violence

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

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
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.

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

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

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

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

Repairing Trust

by JohnJayREC
Repairing Trust

Young men who express more confidence in law enforcement are less likely to support the use of personal violence to settle disputes and resolve personal conflicts.

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
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.

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
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.