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Community Violence

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
Report
Violent crime: Risk models, effective interventions and risk management
Focuses on the potential for interventions at three stages in the offending process: risk assessment, rehabilitation and management of violent offenders. It is aimed at those interested in understanding and intervening to reduce violent crime.
Feb 20, 2008
Journal Article
Posttraumatic Distress and Physical Functioning: A Longitudinal Study of Injured Survivors of Community Violence
Cross-lagged relationships between posttraumatic distress symptoms and physical functioning are reciprocally related following traumatic injury. Interventions targeting physical recovery may influence subsequent mental health, and vice versa.
Jan 1, 2008
Report
Community Policing and Violence Prevention in Oakland
An assessment of the first-year progress of community-policing and violence-prevention programs in Oakland funded by Measure Y found that implementation of community policing has been delayed, but violence-prevention programs have been implemented as planned.
Dec 14, 2007
Journal Article
Active Parental Consent for a School-Based Community Violence Screening: Comparing Distribution Methods
Students are unable to benefit from many school programs designed to address their mental health needs if their parents do not consent to their participation.
Jan 1, 2007
Journal Article
Trauma and Adaptation in Severe Mental Illness: The Role of Self-Reported Abuse and Exposure to Community Violence
Both past and present trauma complicates the adaptation of people with SMI.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Use of Mental Health Services by Men Injured Through Community Violence
Psychoeducation about postinjury reactions and attention to structural barriers to services may help increase rates of care in this population.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Community Policing Implementation
This study developed and assessed a measurement model to examine the implementation of community policing (COP).
Jan 1, 2004
Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 2003
Shows how coordinated efforts among community groups and public agencies can reduce gun violence among inner-city youth; also covers expanding health insurance, defense personnel policies, the nuclear threat, domestic violence, and nanotechnology.
Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article
A School-Based Mental Health Program for Traumatized Latino Immigrant Children
To pilot-test a school mental health program for Latino immigrant students who have been exposed to community violence.
Jan 1, 2003

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Lisa H. Jaycox

Senior Behavioral Scientist

Lisa Jaycox is a senior behavioral scientist, clinical psychologist, and director of RAND-Initiated Research at the RAND Corporation. She has combined clinical and research expertise in the areas of child and adolescent mental health problems, including depression and reactions to violence…
Meagan Cahill

Senior Policy Researcher

Meagan Cahill (she/her) is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. For nearly 20 years, she has been conducting research and evaluation in the areas of policing and improving police-community relations; crime, place, and community crime prevention; at-risk and delinquent youth—with a…

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