Homicide
-
The Deteriorating Impact of the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in Chicago
•
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) was launched by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2002 to reduce gun violence across 94 federal districts. The City of Chicago adopted this program the same year, targeting neighborhoods inflicted with high rates of poverty, unemployment, gang membership, and high school dropouts. Initial evaluations determined…
-
More Questions than Answers: A Review of Gun Violence in Chicago
•
The University of Chicago Crime Lab released a report in January 2017 that details the sudden spike in gun violence that persisted throughout 2016. The Crime Lab analyzed key data in an attempt to discover what triggered the dramatic increase in gun-related crime. Many of the findings were not surprising: Gun violence…
-
Violence in Mexico: Beyond Ayotzinapa
•
The horrifying Ayotzinapa massacre is just the tip of the iceberg in a country with high levels of crime, assassination, and violence in general: an infographic by the Chicago Policy Review.
-
Friends to the End: How the Wrong Social Network Increases Risk of Homicide Victimization
•
Within a high-risk population, are the occurences of homicide victimization largely random or more closely related?