The Center for Crime Prevention and Control fosters innovative crime reduction strategies through hands-on fieldwork, action research, and operational partnerships with law enforcement, communities, social service providers, and other practitioners.
The Center is actively engaged in crime prevention initiatives in jurisdictions around the country and the world. It is particularly focused on issues affecting our most vulnerable communities: gangs and other violent groups, gun violence and gun trafficking, overt drug markets, and domestic violence. It is also focused on repairing relationships between those communities and law enforcement; strengthening communities; and reducing arrest and incarceration.
Much of the Center’s work operates from a framework in which law enforcement, communities, and outreach and social service providers directly engage with offenders to set standards, offer help, and establish clear consequences for continued offending. This framework has produced the “Boston model” gang violence strategy, the “High Point” drug market strategy, and is being further developed for other important public safety issues.
John Jay College has launched the National Network for Safe Communities, composed of the many cities successfully using these strategies around the nation and committed to their continued development and broader implementation.
The High Point Drug Market Strategy is a law enforcement / community partnership that collapses drug markets, reduces violence by directly engaging dealers and their families, creates predictable sanctions, and offers a range of services. Watch this video to learn how the High Point partnership successfully implemented the strategy.
The New Yorker
Annals of Crime: Don't Shoot
Faced with record murder rates and deep distrust of law enforcement among minority communities, Cincinnati turned to the group violence strategy developed by the Center for Crime Prevention and Control. The result was a transformation of the relationship between the police and the community and a 50 percent drop in gang-related homicides.
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Law professor Jeffrey Rosen, in an article for The New York Times Magazine, examines new thinking about deterrence and finds that tested approaches, such as the Ceasefire group violence strategy and the High Point drug market intervention, offer real promise to address the criminal justice system's legitimacy crisis while reducing rates of violence and incarceration around the nation.
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Newsweek recently published an article about the National Network for Safe Communities’ strategies with which we take strong issue. Our response to it, composed jointly with Gary Slutkin (University of Illinois at Chicago), whose work was also misrepresented in the article, can be read here. The original article drew strong criticism from other quarters, a summary of which can be read here.
Gil Kerlikowske, the new director of the White House Office of Drug Control Policy, cites the High Point Drug Market Strategy as one of two models "worth watching" when considering new approaches to drug law enforcement. Click here for the full interview.
Tracey Meares, Yale Law School professor and a member of the Executive Board of the National Network for Safe Communities, talks about her violence prevention work in Chicago, the High Point Drug Market Strategy, and police/community relations. Click here for the webcast.
At the 2008 National Institute of Justice Conference, David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, talked about his work to combat drug markets, especially the High Point Drug Market Strategy, an innovative program that is now being replicated in at least 25 sites around the country. This article, Drugs, Race and Common Ground: Reflections on the High Point Intervention, is based on his remarks.
Michael Blass, a career law enforcement officer working for the Ohio Attorney General, wrote this essay after observing the first offender call-in of Ohio’s Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) on July 31, 2007.
David Kennedy's new book, Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction, was published by Routledge in Fall 2008. Read commentary here.
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