“We Have a Lot of Damage to Undo”: A Conversation with Jeremy Travis …state legislature to increase our taxes to pay for more police officers. It was a remarkable political moment when you think about it. There was deep concern about our city’s…
The Polarization Project …appear that little can be done about this, a broad range of thinkers and organizations of differing political stripes are in fact attempting to address these divisions. In The Polarization…
Violence, Politics & Democracy …political violence are increasing in frequency and intensity, assessing the actual likelihood of politically motivated acts of physical harm remains challenging, as does determining what to do about such threats….
‘Stories about the Way the Nation Is Organized Are Dividing Us’: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin …spiral. Looking forward, he predicts a future of renewed political violence, plagued by “terrorism, urban uprisings, and intercommunal violence of the kind that has plagued Israel and Northern Ireland.” We’ve…
Violence Reduction and Social Inclusion in Ecuador: Legalizing Street Gangs and Declining Rates of Homicide …of heightened political instability as well as the vulnerability of these groups for government targeting as the political demands of the moment require. Interestingly, despite a freezing of relationships between…
Digital Aftershocks: Online Mobilization and Violence in the United States Against a backdrop of escalating political violence and deepening polarization in the United States, a new HFG-supported report from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights examines how…
Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research …Their thoughtful consideration of the mechanisms that drive spikes in some forms of violence and drops in others suggests timely and compelling opportunities for crucial social-science research that can complement…
Determinants of Infant Abuse and Neglect In Group-Living Macaques Infant abuse and neglect is not a phenomenon unique to the human species. In monkeys and apes, some mothers occasionally display violent behavior towards their infants and a few others…
Latino Violence in the United States: A Five-City Study The HFG grant supported the first book-length attempt to answer questions on Latino homicide with hard evidence and empirical research that helps us better understand the impact of the latest…
Identifying Genes Responsible for a Highly Heritable Aspect of Antisocial Behavior in 7-Year-Old Children Our recent work on the genetic basis of antisocial behavior has concentrated on defining the most heritable antisocial behavior phenotype for molecular genetic analyses. We have now repeatedly demonstrated that…
