NIJ-Supported Research Findings on Local Drivers and Long-term Trends in Urban Homicide

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

This panel explores the evolving dynamics of homicide in a large urban setting in the United States. This research delves into the situational, temporal, and socio-demographic drivers of homicide using detailed data from homicide investigations and the latest computational and statistical techniques. The individual presentations in this session look at underlying factors of fluctuating violence, the typologies of lethal firearm violence, and the intersecting roles of demographics and gang affiliation in shaping homicide rates and clearance outcomes. This panel aims to encourage a robust discussion of effective violence reduction strategies.

Sub Unit

• Area III. Types of Offending / 12. Violent Crime

Individual Presentations

• Identifying Situational Drivers of Homicide - George Tita, University of California, Irvine; Clarissa Iliff, University of California, Irvine

• The Decoupling of the Age-Gun Violence Curve - Miguel Quintana-Navarrete, University of California, Irvine

• The Role of Gangs in the Situational Ecology of Gun Violence - Jeffrey Brantingham, University of California, Los Angeles; Craig D. Uchida, Justice & Security Strategies

Chair

• Basia E. Lopez, National Institute of Justice