Violent Street Groups and Organized Crime in Russia …violence have subsided. Eruptions of uncontrolled violence are now an obstacle to the gangs’ business aims, and the gangs try to limit fights and conflict on their territory. They have…
Exploring Violent Careers over the Life Course: A Study of Urban African American Males and Females …20% of the male cohort still being arrested for violence in their mid-thirties. In fact, the prevalence rates of property and violence are similar throughout the twenties and thirties for…
HFG Emerging Scholars …of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what…
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…
Pakistan’s Educational System and Violence: Is There a Connection? …of news; knowledge of Islam, Pakistani history, United States politics, and international relations; the nature of violence; and judgments about justice and injustice, including justifications for violence. The survey rendered…
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…
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning (Photo by Prabin Ranabhat/Getty Images) “Is it possible to foster accountability and disrupt illicit economies without fueling violence?” On February 18, researchers Diana Chigas and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church of Besa Global…