Serotonin and Impulsive Aggression: Not So Fast This article appeared in The Biology of Aggression, the Spring 1999 edition of The HFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. The…
Alcohol: The Aggression Elixir? …Interpersonal Violence: Fostering Multidisciplinary Perspectives (NIAAA research monograph No. 24, NIH Publication No. 93-3496, pp. 3-36). Rockville, MD: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Taylor, S. 1967. Aggressive…
“We Need to Value Black Lives in the Same Way That We Value Others”: A Conversation with Kami Chavis …what they are tasked with doing on a day-to-day basis has an impact on their morale, their mental health, their ability to do their jobs effectively. And so I think…
“Reckoning with Intimate-Partner Violence after the Pandemic” …accounts for this and what does the latest research tell us about effective responses from health and other sectors? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsPsvcpG7s4&t=19s For the second installment of The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s…
Violence, Politics & Democracy …others they disagree with and the effects of such violence on the outcomes of elections and the health of democratic institutions. While media reports convey the sense that incidents of…
Murder by Structure: How Street Gangs Built the Great American City …the power to build or destroy. City planners and city makers determine where kids play and where they go to school. They decide who has access to jobs, health care,…
Our Work …manifestation, and control of violence. We spread this knowledge to inform policy, practice, and public discourse and to advance scholarship. A mission to create and disseminate knowledge against violence The…
Programs …Further Prison Population Reductions.” Self-Initiated Research The Foundation and its staff undertake research of its own design on violence issues of note as occasions to contribute to scholarly or public…
“Who Got the Camera?” Bringing Race and Police Killings into Focus …and accustomed to protesting against them. In “Who Got the Camera?,” Rod Brunson, the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Professor of Public Life in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern…
Explaining the Past and Projecting Future Crime Rates The American public, like citizens elsewhere, care about current and future levels of crime and the factors that drive them. But policymakers, who can greatly influence such factors, often lack…
