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ISPS16-04
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Sierra-Arevalo, Michael, Yanick Charette, and Andrew V. Papachristos (2016), Evaluating the Effect of Project Longevity on Group-Involved Shootings and Homicides in New Haven, Connecticut. Crime & Delinquency. First published on April 10, 2016 as doi:10.1177/0011128716635197
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Beginning in November 2012, New Haven, Connecticut, served as the pilot site for Project Longevity, a statewide focused deterrence gun violence reduction strategy. The intervention brings law enforcement, social services, and community members together to meet with members of violent street groups at program call-ins. Using autoregressive integrated moving average models and controlling for the possibility of a non-New Haven–specific decline in gun violence, a decrease in group offending patterns, and the limitations of police-defined group member involved (GMI) categorization of shootings and homicides, the results of our analysis show that Longevity is associated with a reduction of almost five GMI incidents per month. These findings bolster research confirming the efficacy of focused deterrence approaches to reducing gun violence.
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2016
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