The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Patel D.M. et al., Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary
    (National Academies Press, 2012).

  4. 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.

  5. Adam K., ‘Glasgow was once the “murder capital of Europe”.
    Now it’s a model for cutting crime’, Washington Post, 27 October
    2018.

  6. 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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