The … E-Book. They have personal experience with street activity, such as gangs issues, selling drugs, being shot at, doing jail time, and more. ISBN: 978-1-119-24068-6 March 2019 Wiley-Blackwell 336 Pages. It describes the evaluation’s methods and findings and includes three main components: a process evaluation, impact evaluation, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Advisers: Evaluation of Mayor’s Action Plan, NIJ Youth Justice Policies & Juvenile Confinement, OJJDP: Community-Based Violence Prevention, OJJDP: National Forum to Prevent Youth Violence. An extensive evaluation of the Cure Violence program in 2 communities in New York City is currently being conducted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center. “Effects of Cure Violence in South Bronx and East New York, Brooklyn” (2017), “Young Men in Neighborhoods with Cure Violence Programs Report Growing Confidence in Police”, “Young Men in Neighborhoods with Cure Violence Programs Adopt Attitudes Less Supportive of Violence“ (2017), “Perceptions of Violence in Harlem, South Bronx, East New York, Morrisania, and Bed-Stuy” (2015), Read all of the reports on Cure Violence from John Jay REC. O-Book. New York, NY: Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York 9. In 2019, Cure Violence Global announced the formation of a new, independent NGO. Cure Violence views violence as a disease that can be prevented using public health methods. $54.95. –. Although the complete evaluation is ongoing, there have been several reports released with important findings. In addition to the formal evaluation studies listed above, there are also numerous other studies and papers written about the impact of the Cure Violence approach. – The report also found that the program often dealt with domestic violence conflicts and assisted clients with many domestic issues, including making home visits. In 2014, the JohnJayREC team began conducting surveys with residents in New York City neighborhoods where the Cure Violence program had been implemented for at least one year. Core Staff Learn More. The program site in Trinidad had a 45% reduction in violent crime and 23% reduction in calls to police. A 2012 CDC/Johns Hopkins evaluation of 4 communities in Baltimore. $1,000,000. These individuals are not naive to what is happening on the streets. – Review other products of this project. Cities around the world have turned to Cure Violence to prevent violence – from the United States to Latin America to the Middle East. Cure Violence is an evidence-based violence prevention program that works with communities that have high levels of gun violence. WASHINGTON — A member of a violence interrupter program founded by Attorney General Karl Racine's office was arrested Friday evening on murder charges for a fatal 2017 shooting. Norms on violence were changed – people in program site were much less likely to accept the use of a gun to settle a dispute; 4 times more likely to show little or no support for gun use. In the five hotspot areas, CeaseFire was associated with a statistically significant reduction in both total shootings (victims of all ages) and shootings of individuals between the ages of 10 and 35. Cure Violence operates independently of, while hopefully not undermining, law enforcement. Cure Violence will only hire people that are from the neighborhood and have direct ties to the community. This report presents a comprehensive evaluation of the Cure Violence initiative implemented in Trinidad and Tobago from July 2015 to August 2017. View on Wiley Online Library. $44.00. Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures. In this article, we describe the theoretical basis for the program, review existing program evaluations, … Findings from independent evaluations from prominent researchers. Baltimore: drug law enforcement, the Cure Violence model, and focused deterrence. Hardcover. Print on Demand. Products this paper is to shed light on the complexities of community-level evaluation of violence prevention strategies with regard to selecting a valid counterfactual in order to move toward systematic discussion and documentation of the decisions inherent in these designs. For more information about the results of all of the independent evaluations, … Webinar Description: For more than 15 years, Cure Violence has successfully worked to reduce violence in some of the most violent communities in the United States and around the world, advancing a new health paradigm on violence and a scientific approach to preventing it. The Cure Violence Evaluation was the central component in NYCCure, the Center’s program of studies on violence prevention in New York City. Read the initial RWJF evaluation plan. 56% reductions in killings and 34% in shootings in one community, Reductions spread to surrounding communities. John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center, Building the Evidence Base for Justice and Safety, – A 2017 evaluation of the Cure Violence program in Philadelphia found significant reductions in violence associated with the program. One evaluation, conducted in 2007 by Northwestern University, examined eight communities where Cure Violence operated. WHERE WE WORK . Download the Chicago evaluation executive summary, Download the full Chicago evaluation report. This report presents a comprehensive evaluation of the Cure Violence initiative implemented in Trinidad and Tobago from July 2015 to August 2017. CeaseFire high-risk participants reported decreased involvement in crime and violence, More than 100 mediations involving more than 1,000 people, Average monthly shooting rates decreased by 6%, while increasing in the three comparison areas between 18% and 28%, 100% reductions in retaliation homicides in 5 of 8 communities, “Overall, the impact of the CeaseFire Program is significant and moderate-to-large in size.”, “In every program area there was a substantial decline in the median density of shootings following the introduction of CeaseFire.”. The NYC Cure evaluation team examined key components of the Cure Violence model, the procedures used to implement the model, the contributions of wrap-around services and other components of the intervention model, and its overall effectiveness in reducing pro … – Print. The Cure Violence program is designed to train people who come from areas of high crime rates to intervene in conflicts. Formed in 1999, it began to expand in Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois during the 2000s. Starting at just $44.00. Negative binomial regressions were used to estimate the effects of drug law enforcement and focused deterrence on homicides or nonfatal shooting counts at the police post level, while synthetic control analyses were used to estimate the effects of the Cure Violence model. Download the McCormick Qualitative Evaluation, Download the McCormick Quantitative Evaluation. Researchers surveyed samples of young male residents between the ages of 18 and 30, the demographic most at risk for violent offending and victimization. A recent evaluation of the Cure Violence program in Port of Spain, Trinidad found substantial and significant reductions in violence due to the program. In Denormalizing Violence: A Series of Reports From the John Jay College Evaluation of Cure Violence Programs in New York City. A 2013 McCormick Foundation/University of Chicago/UIC quantitative and a qualitative evaluation of the 2012/2013 CeaseFire illinois/Cure Violence program covered two Chicago neighborhoods. Acknowledgements i Written by Sarah Picard-Fritsche and Lenore Cerniglia Acknowledgements This report presents a comprehensive process and impact evaluation of the Save Our Streets (SOS) gun violence prevention program, launched by the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center and the Center for Court Innovation in January 2010. 1% greater decrease in total violent crimes (including domestic violence). Paperback. It describes the evaluation’s methods and findings and includes three main components: a process evaluation, impact evaluation, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Formerly known as Ceasefire, the national program trains outreach workers and violence interrupters – raised in the very streets where they work – to identify people most likely to be involved in gun violence and redirect them to make non-violent choices. To investigate the efficacy of the Cure Violence program, several independent evaluations have been conducted. Cure Violence (formerly known as Chicago CeaseFire) seeks to create individual-level and community-level change in communities where it is a norm for young people to carry a gun and—for some—to use a gun to settle various forms of conflict. Retaliatory shootings were reduced 100% in five of the seven communities examined in the report. New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. Altogether, Cure Violence presently has active programs in more than 25 cities in 8 countries New York City Council. Cure Violence launched a comprehensive evaluation of their initiative implemented in Trinidad and Tobago from July 2015 to August 2017 including a process evaluation, impact evaluation, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Cure Violence Global team visits St. Louis, confident its crime-fighting team will make a difference "Without a doubt, we will make a difference in St. Louis. "Without a doubt, we will make a difference in St. Louis. A 2009 NIJ/Northwestern University evaluation analyzed 7 communities in Chicago. The Cure Violence Health Model has four independent evaluations – all showing large, statistically significant reductions in violence. The impact evaluation found significant and substantial reductions in violence, calls to the police for violent incidents, and gunshot wound admissions in a hospital located near the intervention. Although in some models comparison groups also showed reductions in shootings, these reductions were either not statistically significant or not as large as those in the CeaseFire target areas. We just have to have patience," said Marcus McAllister, with Cure Violence Global The Chicago version of Cure Violence has been evaluated several times. Findings from the cost-effectiveness evaluation showed that Cure Violence … The survey instrument was designed to measure each respondent’s … Bandy X. Lee . In New York City, a 2010 BJA/Center for Court Innovation evaluation analyzed the program in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Funding conflict resolution, crime, norms, program evaluation. 5 . violence prevention program. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) of Princeton, New Jersey, the New York City Council and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College worked with the Center for Court Innovation (CCI) and many other nonprofit and governmental partners to evaluate the efficacy and outcomes of the “Cure Violence” model of violence reduction. The NYC Cure evaluation team examined key components of the Cure Violence model, the procedures used to implement the model, the contributions of wrap-around services and other components of the intervention model, and its overall effectiveness in reducing pro-violent social norms among high-risk communities in New York. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ. $94.95. Individuals are more likely to be susceptible if they live in an environment in which violence is a well-established norm – their exposure to violence increases the likelihood they will become violent themselves. Skip Navigation. Starting at just $54.95. Cure Violence operates independently of, while hopefully not undermining, law enforcement. Wogod Alawlaqi, Nicole Marie Alexander, Laila Alsabahi, Justice Banks, Jeffrey A. Butts (PI), Anjelica-Maria Camacho, Patricia Cobar, Sheyla Delgado (Project Director), Richard Espinobarros, and Rhoda Ramdeen. In May 2008, Professor Wesley G. Skogan, an expert on crime and policing at Northwestern University, completed a three-year, independent, Department of Justice-funded report on CeaseFire, which found that the program successfully reduced shootings and killings by 41% to 73%. It considers gun violence to be analogous to a communicable disease that passes from person to person when left untreated. Keywords. The strategy leverages experiences of young men of color to act as “credible messengers” of an anti-violence message, in order to prevent and reduce youth violence. Positive Impacts of “Cure Violence” in Chicago. A 2017 evaluation of the Cure Violence program in Philadelphia found significant reductions in violence associated with the program. Download the full Philadelphia evaluation report. O-Book E-Book. The evaluation of a Cure Violence program in Baltimore showed statistically significant reductions in all four program sites with reductions in killings of up to 56% and in shootings of up to 44% as well as strong evidence of norm change – rejecting the use of violence – in the program community. Cure Violence works by interrupting the transmission of retaliatory violence, facilitating behavior change by individuals identified as high-risk for committing violence through connections to resources and ongoing support, and organizing community members to change community norms towards a non-violent culture. John Jay College of Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center, Information for Implementing Cure Violence, Información en Español Sobre Cure Violence, “They really are suggestive of a strong impact.”, “Our study actually showed really powerful effects.”, 63% reduction in shootings and 37% reduction in gun injuries in South Bronx, 50% reduction in gun injuries in East New York, 22% improvement in trust in police and willingness to call police among highest risk, 14% reduction in attitudes supporting violence, with no change in controls, Young men in Cure Violence zones reported Increased confidence in police and increased willingness to contact police, 30% reduction in shootings (comparing the 24 months before the implementation of CeaseFire to the 24 months after implementation). Previously, the work of Cure Violence Global was based out of an NGO at … The Cure Violence model is a public health approach to gun violence reduction that seeks to change individual and community attitudes and norms about gun violence. This approach is grounded in an understanding that violence exhibits hallmarks of an infectious disease. $3,126,000. The Skogan evaluation found that the Cure Violence Model involved many clients who are young parents and received assistance on, among other things, methods of becoming a better parent and dealing with conflicts at home. The Cure Violence Evaluation was the central component in NYCCure, the Center’s program of studies on violence prevention in New York City. Download the full Baltimore evaluation report. Highlights 30% reduction in shootings (comparing the 24 months before the implementation of CeaseFire to the 24 months after implementation) a Replication of the Cure Violence Model. At its peak it was active in about 25 program sites. 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