In November 2020, the John Jay Research & Evaluation Center published Reducing Violence Without Police: A Review of Research Evidence, describing the evidence around policies and programs that can mitigate violence within communities by investing in them and community-serving organizations, instead of relying on law enforcement. Violence in the community should be addressed with community-level interventions that focus on the health and safety of whole populations and not only high-risk individuals.
The printable briefs below include seven strategies as key areas for non-policing interventions and policies.
Improve the Physical Environment
Strengthen Anti-Violence Social Norms & Peer Relationships
Reduce the Harmful Effects of the Justice Process
These briefs were prepared as part of the Health Neighborhoods Project, a research initiative to provide evidence that improving the physical environment of neighborhoods can reduce community violence in New Orleans. Supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (R01HD095609), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, HNP was a collaborative effort between Tulane Schools of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Architecture, the Tulane Mary Amelia Women’s Center, the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies (IWES), Columbia University, and the City of New Orleans.
