07/06/21-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “We have more guns now in circulation than we had before,” Alex Piquero, CJRA Expert.
06/06/21-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “We got more guns now in circulation than we had before. Now you have a lot of first-time buyers and you have a lot of stress and a lot of anxiety and all of this stuff is just literally being put together in a pressure cooker,” Alex Piquero, CJRA Expert
06/04/21-TIME “Economic stress is always an important factor in violence, and the pandemic produced tremendous stress,” Gary Kleck, CJRA Expert.
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05/21/21-Al Jazeera “DC is a little bit of a different oasis, as far as extremism, or even public demonstration,” Brian Levin, CJRA Expert.
In 2007, the Los Angeles mayor’s office launched a program to respond to gang violence. A new study estimated the effect of the program on violent and property crime. The study found that violent crime dropped in areas where the program offered services, but property crime did not decline. The success of the program, which […]
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04/05/21-WRHU “The majority of citizens here in our nation don’t personally experience either directly, through knowing someone, or having it happen in their own community, these types of events. So, much of what people know about mass shootings comes from the media and how those stories are told,” Jaclyn Schildkraut, CJRA Expert.
04/02/21-MSNBC “I think that the police department agrees with that concept. And I think that even the defense attorney for officer Chauvin agrees with that concept. And that is why his defense is going to be that his action did not cause George Floyd’s death, that it was the drugs in Mr. Floyd’s system, his […]
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