- Evaluations of violence interruption methods: Skogan W.G. et
al., ‘Evaluation of CeaseFire-Chicago’, U.S. Department of
Justice report, March 2009; Webster D.W. et al., ‘Evaluation of
Baltimore’s Safe Streets Program’, Johns Hopkins report,
January 2012; Thomas R. et al., ‘Investing in Intervention: The
Critical Role of State-Level Support in Breaking the Cycle of
Urban Gun Violence’, Giffords Law Center report, 2017. - Examples of criticism of Cure Violence: Page C., ‘The doctor
who predicted Chicago’s homicide epidemic’, Chicago Tribune,
30 December 2016; ‘We need answers on anti-violence
program’, Chicago Sun Times, 1 July 2014. - Patel D.M. et al., Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary
(National Academies Press, 2012). - Background from: Seenan G., ‘Scotland has second highest
murder rate in Europe’, The Guardian, 26 September 2005;
Henley J., ‘Karyn McCluskey: the woman who took on Glasgow’s
gangs’, The Guardian, 19 December 2011; Ross P., ‘No mean
citizens: The success behind Glasgow’s VRU’, The Scotsman, 24
November 2014; Geoghegan P., ‘Glasgow smiles: how the city
halved its murders by “caring people into change”’, The
Guardian, 6 April 2015; ‘10 Year Strategic Plan’, Scottish
Violence Reduction Unit, 2017. - Adam K., ‘Glasgow was once the “murder capital of Europe”.
Now it’s a model for cutting crime’, Washington Post, 27 October
2018. - Formal evaluations are not available for all aspects of the VRU
programme, but some parts have been evaluated: Williams D.J.
et al., ‘Addressing gang-related violence in Glasgow: A
preliminary pragmatic quasi-experimental evaluation of the
Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV)’, Aggression and
Violent Behavior, 2014; Goodall C. et al., ‘Navigator: A Tale of
Two Cities’, 12 Month Report, 2017.
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