Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research …future violence trends are the topic of Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research by Manuel Eisner (University of Cambridge and University of Zurich) and Amy Nivette (Utrecht University)….
Intimate Violence in Community Context …intimate homicide rates and self-reports of nonlethal partner violence at the individual level. However, collective efficacy exerts a more powerful regulatory effect on nonlethal violence in neighborhoods where the tolerance…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars …are exploring important problems of violence in the world. The Distinguished Scholars are investigating a myriad of issues, including violence against women, policing and crime, radicalization, and the environmental parameters…
Welcome to Our 2025 HFG Distinguished Scholars …varied in the violence problems they’re studying and the sites of that violence,” said Joel Wallman, Director of Research at HFG. “Supporting their work reflects the Foundation’s belief that reducing…
Murder by Structure: How Street Gangs Built the Great American City …of violence we see today rest upon networks of violence and relationships built over nearly a century. Understanding and doing something about violence today, then, requires us to not only…
HFG Welcomes Its 2026 Emerging Scholars …understanding of problems of violence around the world. The scholars are completing dissertations on a range of important topics, including school shooting incidents in the United States, anti-minority vigilante violence…
An Unexpected Peace: Understanding Resilient Order and Violence in Multi-Gang Environments …restrain their violent confrontations in some places and not in others. First, we identified a random sample of places where multiple criminal gangs were operating simultaneously and where inter-gang violence…
Can the State Interrupt the Vicious Cycle of Gendered Violence that it Helped to Create? Evidence from Guatemala …communities. Absent broader efforts to address structural inequalities, the impacts of [violence against women and girls] reforms are unevenly experienced, with those most vulnerable to violence and most in need…
HFG Welcomes its 2025 Emerging Scholars …CORANTIN, HALEY ALLEN DEMARCO, JIMMY GRAHAM; SECOND ROW: REBEKAH JONES, SAAD LAKHANI, ANNAH MCCURRY, KARMVIR PADDA, JESSIE WALDMAN, DANIEL WAQAR “Relationship aggression, police violence against civilians, political violence from above…
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence Amid a volatile election season, the report ‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence outlines the steps social media companies like…
