RELATED RESEARCH STUDIES (click on title for a pdf)
- Papachristos, Andrew V., Anthony A Braga, and David Hureau. 2012. "Social Networks and the Risk of Gunshot Injury." Journal of Urban Health 89(6):992-1003.
- Papachristos, Andrew V., Anthony A Braga, Eric Piza, and Leigh Grossman. forthcoming. “The Company You Keep? The Spillover Effects of Gang Membership on Individual Gunshot Victimization in Social Networks.” Criminology.
- Papachristos, Andrew V., and David S. Kirk. forthcoming. "Changing the Street Dynamic: Evaluating Chicago's Group Violence Reduction Strategy." Criminology & Public Policy.
- Papachristos, Andrew V., Tracey L. Meares, and Jeffrey Fagan. 2012. "Why Do Criminals Obey the Law? The Influence of Legitimacy and Social Networks on Active Gun Offenders." The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 102(2):397-439.
- Papachristos, Andrew V., Christopher Wildeman, and Elizabeth Roberto. 2015. "Tragic, but not Random: The Social Contagion of Nonfatal Gunshot Injuries." Social Science & Medicine 125(1).
- Papachristos, Andrew V., and Christopher Wildeman. 2014. "Network Exposure and Homicide Victimization in an African American Community." American Journal of Public Health 104(1):143-50.
SOME INFORMATION ON A PROGRAM DESIGN COMPETITION
It would be (much) easier if we were to design the study around a specific intervention. But, at least for now, we're trying to avoid designing a violence prevention program/intervention as opposed to designing a basic “framework” for different types of programs related to gun violence prevention that might benefit from a networked approach, like the one described in Papachristos and Kirk (forthcoming).
To this end, and in collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation, we intend on hosting a Design Competition, similar to the one recently conducted by The University of Chicago Crime Lab and MacArthur Foundation. I will let the Crime Lab Executive Director, Roseanna Ander, and MacArthur Foundation Program Officer, Maurice Classen, explain in more detail at the meeting. For now, here is a link to the Crime Lab's website describing how such an approach would work.
http://crimelab.uchicago.edu/page/rfloi
It would be (much) easier if we were to design the study around a specific intervention. But, at least for now, we're trying to avoid designing a violence prevention program/intervention as opposed to designing a basic “framework” for different types of programs related to gun violence prevention that might benefit from a networked approach, like the one described in Papachristos and Kirk (forthcoming).
To this end, and in collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation, we intend on hosting a Design Competition, similar to the one recently conducted by The University of Chicago Crime Lab and MacArthur Foundation. I will let the Crime Lab Executive Director, Roseanna Ander, and MacArthur Foundation Program Officer, Maurice Classen, explain in more detail at the meeting. For now, here is a link to the Crime Lab's website describing how such an approach would work.
http://crimelab.uchicago.edu/page/rfloi