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Aug 31, 2023 · 8. What is common pushback against this approach? A common criticism of violence interrupter programs is that they do not reduce crime rates. Measuring the effectiveness of violence interrupters is complex—it is easy to record crime when it happens and challenging to quantify the volume of violence prevented.
Sep 3, 2021 · The evidence for interrupters is weak. Violence interruption was conceived by Gary Slutkin, head of Cure Violence, in Chicago in the 1990s as a public health response to shootings. The idea is ...
Jan 30, 2023 · Louisville was adopting a hybrid approach, bringing together focused deterrence, interrupters and long-term case management into a single ecosystem for violence reduction.
- Neighborhood Staff Characteristics
- Identifying Street Conflicts
- Conflict Mediation Tactics
- Conflict Mediation Tools
- Conflict Mediation Challenges
Participants were predominantly male and in their 30s and 40s; most were either current or former residents of the neighborhoods in which they work. Across both cases, about 75 % of the staff had been incarcerated (Table 2). All study participants emphasized that credibility—described as a combination of trustworthiness, authenticity, and an abilit...
HOWs and VIs rely on the community to share information about potential shootings before they happen. Community members must trust that such information will not be shared with the police. Even when staffed by credible individuals, the program itself can be viewed with skepticism and distrust initially. When CeaseFire is first implemented, the staf...
Conflict mediation is a complex interaction between the individuals with the conflict and the program staff. HOWs and VIs intervene at various stages of conflict; some mediations involve breaking up physical fights, and others involve speaking with an individual or group about their intended actions. Figure 1displays a model of key considerations t...
All staff are given a cell phone, and in Chicago, VIs are expected to have a car. The car is often used to remove an angry, would-be shooter from the scene of a brewing conflict. Further, the car can be used to get conflicting individuals to locations where they will not bring a weapon, as one participant put it: During work hours, staff are requir...
In both cities, outreach staff reported that the hardest conflicts to mediate involve retaliation for a previous homicide and those where large amounts of money were involved. Yet, VIs and HOWs told of situations when they were able to prevent retaliation even after there had been multiple victims and social norms require retaliation. In Baltimore,...
- Jennifer M. Whitehill, Jennifer M. Whitehill, Daniel W. Webster, Shannon Frattaroli, Elizabeth M. Pa...
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Jul 14, 2022 · Violence interrupters, sometimes referred to as neighborhood change agents, often have a revered role in the community and may have had personal experiences with gun violence or violent crime ...
- Corinne Muller
May 28, 2024 · The evidence suggests that violence interrupters are a valuable part of the violence prevention field, but improvements in both programming and evaluation are possible. VIs are successful at reaching the target population. Most VI programs initially reduce violence at the community level, but struggle to maintain that success.
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Oct 15, 2021 · At the age of 16, he was arrested for armed robbery and spent 23 years in prison. During their event to condemn the shooting, one by one, the interrupters take the microphone. “Our community ...
