Denormalizing Violence: Effects of the Cure Violence Model in New York City

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

Cure Violence relies on the efforts of community-based “outreach workers” and “violence interrupters” to identify individuals vulnerable to gun violence, and to use their personal relationships and social supports to dissuade them from engaging in violence. Cure Violence is designed to have effects beyond direct program participants. The developers of the model suggest that if these strategies are implemented with high levels of fidelity, they should begin to denormalize violence in the entire community. With this in mind, the John Jay College evaluation includes measures of crime, hospital admissions due to violent injury, and attitudes towards violence among young men living in specified neighborhoods.

Sub Unit

• Area XII: Methodology / 69: Advances in Evaluation Research

Individual Presentations

• Evaluating Cure Violence in New York City - Jeffrey Butts, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Sheyla A. Delgado, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Detecting norm change: A survey of young men in New York City neighborhoods - Sheyla A. Delgado, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Laila Alsabahi, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Jeffrey Butts, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Impact of Cure Violence in New York City - Kevin T. Wolff, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Sheyla A. Delgado, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Jeffrey Butts, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Chair

• Sheyla A. Delgado, John Jay College of Criminal Justice