“Social Disruptions Reveal Who We Are”: A Conversation with Jeffrey Butts …the Cure Violence model. Programs like Save Our Streets—that’s where I would put all my investments. I wanted to ask you about the state of Cure Violence research. It is…
“We Have a Lot of Damage to Undo”: A Conversation with Jeremy Travis …the contrary, we couldn’t see any end to the increase in violence, both in New York and nationally. The rise in violence, and homicides, in particular, had been very steep….
The Chinese Must Go: The Violent Birth of American Border Control …more recognized forms of political power. This racial violence terrorized local populations, shaped local politics, and at times, advanced a national agenda. In the mid-nineteenth century, this political violence, and…
Controlling Violence in Wartime? Power Centralization and Economization of Republican Violence in the Spanish Civil War …decide, and are able to control, minimize, or maximize violence; and the impact of political discourses and competition among different actors for the use of violence in modern war violence….
White Terror: Paramilitary Violence in Interwar Central Europe …this field and to test the wider methodological implications of my hypothesis for our understanding of political violence more generally. I undertook several extended trips to various Central European archives…
Targeting Institutional Risk Factors to Reduce Patient Violence …or high) strongly predicted units’ violence rates one year later (r= .78). Second, specific factors that strongly predicted future violence included a unit’s historical rates of violence; limited violence-relevant interventions;…
The Political-Criminal Nexus: Emerging Violent Threat to Governability in the Twenty-First Century One of the more dangerous contemporary threats to the quality of life is the collaboration of the political establishment with the criminal underworld—the political-criminal nexus (PCN). These partnerships increasingly undermine…
Collective Crimes in Times of War: Explaining Local Violence Against Civilians in Croatia …violence against civilians. Thus, even before mass violence begins, certain communities are transformed into amoral communities, where the definition of crime becomes altered and violence is justified as a form…
HFG Emerging Scholars …1865-1915 Moritz Emanuel Bondeli (Political Science, Yale University). Disturbing the Peace: Mass Politics and Political Violence in Weimar Germany Madison Dalton (Political Science, Stanford University). The Politics of Justice: Sexual…
HFG Launches Speaker Series on Gender-Based Violence This fall, the Foundation will host three Knowledge Against Violence conversations titled, “Global Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence.” Gender-based violence, defined by the United Nations as “harmful acts directed at people…
