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  • Can a new victims advocacy movement break cycles of violence?

    January 13, 2016 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A growing number of organizations—rallying around victim advocacy—are calling for shorter sentences for offenders and better counseling for victims across the United States.

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  • How 'Violence Interrupters' Are Trying to Stop Gang Shootings in Brooklyn

    December 16, 2015 |

    Vice |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In a year that has seen murder rise in New York, locals are trying to mediate between gang members, in part by using "violence interrupters," who are trained to break cycles of violence.

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  • Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar

    September 10, 2015 |

    Freakonomics |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Researchers set out to measure the efficacy of a program called Becoming a Man, which seems to be proving that, for all the billions of dollars spent on complicated anti-crime programs, something as simple and cheap as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy seems more effective in reducing crime (and, not unrelated, keeping teenagers in school).

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  • Interrupting violence in Brooklyn

    April 08, 2014 |

    MSNBC |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, an organization called Save Our Streets Crown Heights (S.O.S.) is taking steps to disrupt violence. The organization is modeled after Chicago's violence interrupters, which employ people from the neighborhood to connect with those most at-risk and disrupt conflicts and retalitory violence.

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  • Blocking the Transmission of Violence

    May 04, 2008 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In the earliest days of what has become the Cure Violence model of violence prevention using street-outreach mediators, the Chicago CeaseFire group began hiring former gang members and people recently released from prison because of their credibility on the street. They "interrupt" violence, mediating conflicts to prevent escalation to gunfire, based on a public-health rationale that sees the spread of violence in epidemiological terms. The organization overcame skepticism when an early study showed its methods reduced violence by 16-27% more than in neighborhoods it hadn't worked in.

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