Gangs, Groups, Networks, and Deterrence: An Evaluation of Syracuse Truce

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Abstract

Syracuse Truce is a focused deterrence intervention modeled on the group violence intervention of the National Network for Safe Communities, designed to reduce gun violence by members of street gangs and other criminal groups. We estimate the impact of Syracuse Truce on gun violence overall and for individual gangs and other groups. We are particularly concerned with how the deterrent effects of Truce may be contingent on the direct and indirect reach of the deterrence message within gangs/groups and on the cohesion of the social networks that gangs/groups respectively comprise.

Authors

• Robert E. Worden, University at Albany, SUNY

• Sarah J. McLean, The John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety, Inc.

• Andrew Palmer Wheeler, The University of Texas at Dallas

• Kelly J. Becker, The John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety, Inc.