The Boston Gun Project is a problem-solving policing initiative aimed at reducing homicide victimization among young people in the city of Boston. It represented an innovative partnership between researchers and practitioners to assess the city’s youth homicide...
The Boston Gun Project Working Group began meeting in January 1995, and by the fall of that year, the project’s basic problem assessment had been completed and the elements of what is now known as the Operation Ceasefire intervention mapped out; implementation...
The aim of this article by Kennedy et al. was to describe the problem of youth violence in Boston and the strategy that they implemented to address it. This article includes the following: 1) a review of the literature, 2) findings from a review of the gun related...
Operation Ceasefire is a problem-oriented policing intervention aimed at reducing youth homicide and youth firearms violence in Boston. It represented an innovative partnership between researchers and practitioners to assess the city’s youth homicide problem and...
A standard methodology in program evaluation is to use time series variation to compare pre- and post-program outcomes. However, when the timing of a break in a statistical relationship can be determined only by looking at the data, then the usual distribution of the...
