Welcome to the New HFG.org …and disseminate knowledge against violence. We welcome your feedback. Let us know what you think by visiting our contact page. Regards, Daniel F. Wilhelm, President The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation…
“Evidence Doesn’t Seem to Play a Key Role”: A Conversation with David Weisburd …go, “Well there’s mixed evidence about large-scale use of stop-question-and-frisk [SQF] across cities but there’s strong evidence that pedestrian stops work in hot spots, in areas with high violence.” There…
International Sanctions against Violent Actors In International Sanctions against Violent Actors, Dursun Peksen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis, examines the extent to which international sanctions affect political violence committed by state…
HFG Helps Launch CCJ Crime Trends Working Group …knowledge on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. For more information contact: Nyeleti Honwana, Program Officer info@hfg.org | 646.428.0971…
The Opioid Epidemic and Homicide The twenty-five-year epidemic of opioid misuse in the United States, which has taken at least 750,000 lives through overdose, has had another lethal toll: violence associated with the street market…
Forecasting US Crime Rates and the Impact of Reductions in Imprisonment: 1960-2025 …This report concerns national trends, updating the authors’ national-level HFG report released in 2020, before the social and economic disruptions of the pandemic and civil unrest over police violence interrupted…
‘There’s Nothing Inevitable or Permanent about Democracy’: A Conversation with Robert Talisse …and political violence? I think we should always be worried about the health and viability of democracy. I think it’s dangerous for people to think that democracy is a set…
In Memoriam: Richard Rosenfeld …illicit markets and violence, policing practices, recidivism, and the relationship between economic trends and crime rates were perennial preoccupations. In recent years, he became especially interested in the potential usefulness…
In Search of Popular Sovereignty: British Rule and the Great Revolt (1936–39) in Palestine …the scope of official violence was obfuscated by the military and has been hidden from researchers. With their society in ruins and their movement crushed, the Palestinian people were deemed…
HFG Participates in the Paris Peace Forum …HFG’s support of The Paris Peace Forum is part of our continued commitment to the creation and dissemination of knowledge against violence in the United States and around the world….
