Crime Gun Theft …crime. In particular, Chicago data suggests that only a tiny proportion of crime guns in that city were ever reported stolen to the Police Department. That and other evidence challenge…
Creating the Illusion of Impending Death: Armed Robbers in Action This article appeared in Crimes of Violence, the Spring 1997 edition of TheHFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. Unlike most sorts…
“Violence Is Contagious”: A Conversation with Andrew Papachristos …Less Crime?, which looked at the effects of gentrification on crime in both Black and White neighborhoods in Chicago. What did you find? We wrote that paper in the early…
Our Work …Crime Policy at George Mason University The Foundation partners with the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University to provide briefings on Capitol Hill for members of Congress…
“Rising Violent Crime in Mexico” Panel …a co-author of Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico, and is an Associate Professor at the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona….
‘The Potential for Terrorism Is Pretty Frightening’: A Conversation with Gary LaFree …Maryland, where he had built a career researching global and domestic crime. In fact, in the ’90s, LaFree was awarded two grants by The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation to support…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey) and Radha Sarkar (Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey), Organized Crime and Religious Leaders: Understanding Victimization and Resilience Marc Lynch (Political Science and…
Drug Violence, Fear of Crime, and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis My dissertation, “Drug Violence, Fear of Crime and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis,” is an ethnography of how and why increased criminal violence and fear have…
What Do Historians Have to Say About Violence? …Eric A. Johnson and Eric H. Monkkonen (eds.) 1996. The Civilization of Crime. Urbana: University of Illinois Press; Johnson. 1995. Urbanization and Crime. New York: Cambridge University Press. Jeffrey S….
“We Need to Value Black Lives in the Same Way That We Value Others”: A Conversation with Kami Chavis …would call a high-crime area, usually you can identify the drivers of that crime. You don’t have a community of people who are all engaging in criminal behavior. It’s usually…