Evaluating the Effect of Project Longevity on Group-Involved Shootings and Homicides in New Haven, Connecticut

Beginning in November 2012, New Haven, Connecticut, served as the pilot site for Project Longevity, a statewide focused deterrence gun violence reduction strategy. The intervention brings law enforcement, social services, and community members together to meet with members of violent street groups a...

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Autor principal: Sierra-Arevalo, Michael (Autor)
Otros Autores: Charette, Yanick (Otro) ; Papachristos, Andrew V. (Otro)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
En: Crime & delinquency
Año: 2017, Volumen: 63, Número: 4, Páginas: 446-467
Acceso en línea: Presumably Free Access
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Palabras clave:
Crime prevention
Deterrence
Gangs
Intervention
Projekt Longevity
Reduzierung
Rückgang
Strategie
Violence
Waffengewalt
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Sumario:Beginning in November 2012, New Haven, Connecticut, served as the pilot site for Project Longevity, a statewide focused deterrence gun violence reduction strategy. The intervention brings law enforcement, social services, and community members together to meet with members of violent street groups at program call-ins. Using autoregressive integrated moving average models and controlling for the possibility of a non-New Haven–specific decline in gun violence, a decrease in group offending patterns, and the limitations of police-defined group member involved (GMI) categorization of shootings and homicides, the results of our analysis show that Longevity is associated with a reduction of almost five GMI incidents per month. These findings bolster research confirming the efficacy of focused deterrence approaches to reducing gun violence.
ISSN:1552-387X
DOI:10.1177/0011128716635197