Crime Prevention and Control

Awards associated with the Center’s work:

2008
International Association of Chiefs of Police Webber Seavey Award:
Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV)

2008
National Criminal Justice Association Outstanding Criminal Justice Program Award: Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV)

2007
Innovations in American Government Award, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government: High Point Police Department, for the High Point drug market strategy

2006
Finalist, Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing: High Point Police Department, for the High Point drug market strategy

2005
Chief’s Award, High Point Police Department:
David Kennedy, only civilian so honored

2002
Director’s Commendation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms:
David Kennedy, for work on firearms trafficking and the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative

1999
International Association of Chiefs of Police Webber Seavey Award:
Boston Police Department, for Operation Ceasefire

1998
Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing:
Boston Police Department, for Operation Ceasefire

1997
Innovations in American Government Award, the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University:
Boston Police Department, for Operation Ceasefire

1997
Law Enforcement News: People of the Year, Boston Gun Project Working Group

1997
U.S. News & World Report Silver Bullet Award (16 Smart Ideas to Fix the World), for the group and gang violence strategy

CENTER SPOTLIGHTS

Campbell Review Attests to Efficacy of Center's Strategies
A Campbell Collaboration Systematic Review, the gold standard in evaluating social science interventions, found "strong empirical evidence” for the effectiveness of the Center's crime prevention strategies. The Effects of “Pulling Levers” Focused Deterrence Strategies on Crime  (Braga & Weisburd, 2011) confirms what research and field experience have long suggested:  a strategy that combines deterrence with elements that encourage offenders away from crime, strengthens a community’s collective efficacy, and enhances police legitimacy is the most effective approach to addressing serious violent crime and overt drug markets.


Don't Shoot
Read an excerpt from Center Director David Kennedy's new book or click on the cover image below for further information. Highlights from a reading during his national book tour, including a conversation with John Seabrook from The New Yorker, can be viewed here.     

David Kennedy, in this interview with Boston Public Radio, sets out what it takes to reduce the number of violent deaths and the high levels of incarceration rates that beset America's most troubled communities.

Fighting Back: Violence in Our Cities 
As one of the panelists of a multimedia event in New Haven, CT, Center Director David Kennedy discusses how to rebuild trust between the community and police and stem the tide of murders in the city.  


Photo: Thomas McMillan/New Haven Independent  


Thinking Outside the Cell
In this interview with CUNY TV's Criminal Justice Matters, Center Director David Kennedy explains why the strategies developed by the Center can reduce both serious violent crime and the problem of mass incarceration.

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Center for Crime Prevention and Control
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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