Reducing Urban Violence: A Contrast of Public Health and Criminal Justice Approaches.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cities are investing millions in Cure Violence, a public health approach to reduce urban violence by targeting at-risk youth and redirecting conflict to nonviolent responses. The impact of such a program compared with criminal justice responses is unknown because experiments directly comparing criminal justice and public health approaches to violence prevention are infeasible with observational data. We simulated experiments to test the influence of two interventions on violence: (1) Cure Violence and (2) directed police patrol in violence hot spots.

Methods

We used an agent-based model to simulate a 5% sample of the New York City (NYC) adult population, with agents placed on a grid representing the land area of NYC, with neighborhood size and population density p

SUBMITTER: Cerda M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5718925 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature