Policing Protests: Lessons from The Occupy Movement, Ferguson and Beyond …for Police is a clear and authoritative summary of research on policing practices that either facilitate peaceful protests and other public order events or violate basic rights, engender resentment and…
An Exploration of the Marked Decline of Women’s Involvement in Crime: 1700–1900 …late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries, a variety of less-serious public nuisance offenses, such as scolding, gossiping, slander, immodest dressing, and the like, came to be decriminalized. Women constituted the vast majority…
Happy Marriages: Civilizing Domestic Life in Costa Rica, 1850–1950 …for divorce. It had to be proven beyond doubt that the husband lived with his concubine, being a cause of public scandal, moral misconduct, and family disintegration. The Penal Code…
Social Violence and Religious Conflict in Late Medieval Valencia …unmarried girls). Their status anxiety was fed by the authorities’ public criticism of them for shameful and un-Christian mingling with Jews and Muslims; they resolved it, I argue, through collective…
An Anatomy of Sectarian Violence: Jews and Christians in Premodern Poland …and economic relations, as it moved the sacred to the public arena of courts. Far more than the Church’s efforts to educate the laity, the lay courts’ classification of Catholic…
Drug Violence, Fear of Crime, and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis …relying on private security, but on the public security apparatus to create an “armored city” in detriment of the rest of the metropolis. A similar phenomenon took place in Caracas…
Annual HFG Symposium on Crime in America Examines Criminal Justice Reform in the Biden Era …former prosecutors and a public defender discuss whether prosecutors can be a force for change. Moderator: Marissa Boyers Bluestine, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, University of Pennsylvania…
HFG Fall Internship …fulfill organizational goals and initiatives related to programming, publications, and events. The position offers a mix of in-person and remote work. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation examines enduring and urgent…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2021 Emerging Scholars …to advance knowledge of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence around the world. Their dissertations explore a range of urgent global topics from policing in Chicago public housing to…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars …forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. 2022 Scholars and Research Topics Margherita Belgioioso (University of Kent) Rebel Tactics, Local Public Support and the Upcoming Phase of the Peace Talks…