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Community Violence

Essay

Childhood Trauma Is More Common Than You Think. This School-Based Intervention Can Help

A program developed at RAND helps children exposed to trauma confront and subdue their stress and anxiety. The program grew out of the 1990s street violence of South Los Angeles and has since helped kids from Newtown to Fukushima. Researchers are tailoring this intervention for children in Puerto Rico whose lives were upended by hurricanes.

Apr 23, 2019
Tool

Better Policing Toolkit

The Better Policing Toolkit is a resource to help law enforcement agencies identify and implement the most effective strategies for different crime problems.

Dec 14, 2018
Tool

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools, or CBITS, helps students who have experienced significant trauma. The program focuses on decreasing symptoms related to trauma exposure, managing stress and anxiety, and building peer and caregiver support.

Nov 15, 2018
Periodical

RAND Review: November-December 2018

This issue spotlights RAND's research on how providers can better meet the health care needs of veterans; life as a U.S. Army private; and Air Force efforts to improve leadership opportunities for women.

Nov 6, 2018
Report

Leveraging Research and Philanthropy to Reduce Crime and Violence in the Mississippi Delta

The crime and violence rates in the two most populous cities in the Mississippi Delta region are significantly higher than in their surrounding areas. How are foundations funding crime and violence reduction in these areas?

Jun 29, 2018
Multimedia

Countering Violent Extremism

A series of brief videos introduces important elements of the RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). The toolkit helps community-based CVE programs design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise.

Jan 10, 2018
Infographic

How to make using ambulance data EASIER

Following a report into the use of ambulance data for violence prevention, this guide advises police forces on how to make using ambulance data easier.

Dec 15, 2017
Report

Using ambulance data to inform violence prevention: A guide for police, public health and violence prevention partnerships

The use of ambulance data for crime reduction is a form of injury surveillance. This guidance is aimed at those interested in violence reduction and who do not currently use ambulance data, or wish to extend their current use of ambulance data.

Dec 15, 2017
Report

Using Ambulance Data for Violence Prevention: Technical Report

This study is a 'proof of concept' evaluation of the utility of using ambulance data for violence prevention activities, in partnership with the West Midlands Police and the West Midlands Ambulance Service.

Sep 28, 2017
Tool

How to Evaluate Countering Violent Extremism Programs

The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism can help program staff overcome common challenges to evaluating and planning improvements to their programs.

Mar 13, 2017
Report

Development of the Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism

Countering violent extremism (CVE) requires reducing the underlying factors that give rise to radicalization and recruitment. Using evaluations of past programs, researchers created a toolkit for CVE program administrators to use to measure their effectiveness.

Mar 13, 2017
Report

A Community-Based, Focused-Deterrence Approach to Closing Overt Drug Markets: A Process and Fidelity Evaluation of Seven Sites

This process evaluation describes how well seven jurisdictions adhered to a Bureau of Justice Assistance strategy to reduce overt drug markets, along with the barriers they encountered and lessons learned from their experiences.

Feb 2, 2016
Report

National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes

Shares the results of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a community-based initiative that implemented and evaluated promising and evidence-based programs to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 15 U.S. program sites.

Jan 4, 2012
Research Brief

Reducing the Impact of Children's Exposure to Violence: Results of the National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches

RAND's evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches identified program successes and challenges in implementing programs for children exposed to violence. The evaluation results, though largely inconclusive, can inform similar efforts going forward.

Sep 13, 2011
Report

National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes

Shares the results of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a community-based initiative that implemented and evaluated promising and evidence-based programs to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 15 U.S. program sites.

Aug 25, 2011
Report

Community-Based Violence Prevention: An Assessment of Pittsburgh's One Vision One Life Program

In 2006, more than 6 million individuals were victimized by violent crimes. The extent of violence and its impact highlight a critical need to develop and implement effective programs to reduce violence and victimization, and to conduct critical evaluations to inform other violence-reduction programs.

Mar 23, 2011
Report

Reducing Gun Violence

An initiative that successfully reduced gun violence in Boston was adapted for a section of East Los Angeles with prevalent gang activity. Though not implemented as planned, the intervention helped reduce violent and gang crime in the targeted districts, both during and immediately after implementation.

Dec 22, 2010
Report

Local Authority Commissioning: Understanding the use of information and evidence by commissioners of services

This exploratory research examines the types of data and information Local Authorities draw upon to make commissioning decisions.

Oct 7, 2009
Journal Article

The Effect of Urban Street Gang Densities on Small Area Homicide Incidence in a Large Metropolitan County, 1994-2002

The presence of street gangs has been hypothesized as influencing overall levels of violence in urban communities through a process of gun-drug diffusion and crosstype homicide.

Jan 1, 2009
Report

Community Policing and Crime: The Process and Impact of Problem-Solving in Oakland

Building on the first-year implementation assessment, this report examines the progress and effectiveness of the problem-solving officer program funded by Measure Y, Oakland, California's Violence Prevention and Public Safety Act of 2004.

Dec 10, 2008

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