RT Article
T1 Defund the police?: considerations for reducing gang violence
JF The Oxford handbook of gangs and society
SP 849
OP 869
A1 Braga, Anthony Allan 1969-
A2 MacDonald, John M. 1972-
A2 Tita, George E.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1920002200
AB In 2020 homicide rates rose by 30%, the single highest increase in homicide in the past six decades. At the same time, racial justice protests spawned a new movement calling to “defund the police.” There are no systematic studies of the impact of the “defund the police” movement on the rise in serious urban violence. However, research supports the position that homicide increases when police departments withdraw from proactive crime control activities, and that when a small population of very risky individuals is not appropriately managed by the police and their partners, rapid and steep increases in fatal and non-fatal shootings can result as cycles of retaliatory violence spin out of control. Small decreases in the policing of high-risk offending groups may quickly lead to shooting surges. This chapter considers how the current climate could undermine focused deterrence, an evidence-based gang violence reduction strategy, and produce unintended harms to disadvantaged neighborhoods suffering the brunt of the recent increase in gun violence.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 864-869
SN 9780197618158
K1 Gangs
K1 defund police
K1 focused deterrence
K1 Shootings
K1 Violence Prevention