@article{ref1,
title="Evaluating the effect of project longevity on group-involved shootings and homicides in New Haven, Connecticut",
journal="Crime and delinquency",
year="2017",
author="Sierra-Arevalo, Michael and Charette, Yanick and Papachristos, Andrew V.",
volume="63",
number="4",
pages="446-467",
abstract="Beginning in November 2012, New Haven, Connecticut, served as the pilot site for Project Longevity, a statewide focused deterrence gun violence reduction strategy. The intervention brings law enforcement, social services, and community members together to meet with members of violent street groups at program call-ins. Using autoregressive integrated moving average models and controlling for the possibility of a non-New Haven-specific decline in gun violence, a decrease in group offending patterns, and the limitations of police-defined group member involved (GMI) categorization of shootings and homicides, the results of our analysis show that Longevity is associated with a reduction of almost five GMI incidents per month. These findings bolster research confirming the efficacy of focused deterrence approaches to reducing gun violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0011-1287",
doi="10.1177/0011128716635197",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128716635197"
}