“There Are Clearly Spaces Where Law Enforcement Does Not Belong”: A Conversation with Tracie Keesee …give you the outcomes that I think people are looking for. Training for police officers is not always evidence-based. In some cases, folks are doing what we might call check-the-box,…
Police Special Operations and Armed Criminal Groups in Rio de Janeiro …human resources of the government of the state of Rio de Janeiro are used to carry out armed incursions into favelas, based on the presumption that this is an effective…
HFG Journalism Fellowships and Awards …a new way to earn money after selling papers for 42 years. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) As a research organization dedicated to understanding violence in all forms, the Foundation…
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…
Military Training, Violence, and Human Rights: The School of the Americas …School of the Americas, Andean coca growers who currently bear the brunt of state-sponsored violence in the Americas, and U.S. activists who oppose the U.S. military’s policies. A book based…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa The HFG research and subsequent book, Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, is an attempt to think about the implications of pervasive spiritual insecurity for the postapartheid democratic state…
The Bitter Aloe Project: Building a Prosopographic Understanding of Apartheid-Era Violence Through Advanced Machine Learning …goal is to open new avenues for research into political violence in South Africa during the apartheid era by bringing new forms of legibility to this massive archive through the…
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…
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…
The Violent Life of Bruna Veríssimo: An Experimental Ethnographic Biography of a Homeless Brazilian Youth …from the age of nine, living as a transvestite. One of the principal findings of the research concerns the interface of violence and notions of gender. Females and those assuming…
