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Washington, DC 20531 John Ashcroft Attorney General Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice World Wide Web Site World Wide Web Site http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij Reducing Gun Violence The Boston Gun Project’s Operation Ceasefire Developing and Implementing Operation Ceasefire David M. Kennedy Anthony A. Braga Anne M. Piehl Measuring the Impact of Operation Ceasefire Anthony A. Braga David M. Kennedy Anne M. Piehl Elin J. Waring September 2001 NCJ 188741 National Institute of Justice Sarah V. Hart Director Lois Felson Mock Program Manager Anthony A. Braga is a senior research associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, John F.Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice. David M. Kennedy is a senior researcher in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of Harvard University’s John F.Kennedy School of Government and was the director of the Boston Gun Project. Anne Morrison Piehl is an associate professor of public policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Elin J.Waring is an associate professor of sociology at Lehman College and the City University of New York Graduate School. This research was sponsored by grant award number 94–IJ–CX–0056 from the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Findings and conclusions of the research are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the U.S. Department of Justice. The National Institute of Justice is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. The Boston Gun Project’s Operation Ceasefire G Foreword his Research Report is part of the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ’s) Reducing Gun Violence publication series. Each report in the T series describes the implementation and effects of an individual, NIJ-funded, local-level program designed to reduce firearm-related violence in a particular U.S. city. Some studies received cofunding from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services; one also received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Each report in the series describes in detail the problem targeted; the pro- gram designed to address it; the problems confronted in designing, imple- menting, and evaluating the effort; and the strategies adopted in responding to any obstacles encountered. Both successes and failures are discussed, and recommendations are made for future programs. While the series includes impact evaluation components, it primarily high- lights implementation problems and issues that arose in designing, conduct- ing, and assessing the respective programs. The Research Reports should be of particular value to anyone interested in adopting a strategic, data-driven, problem-solving approach to reducing gun violence and other crime and disorder problems in communities. The series reports on firearm violence reduction programs in Boston, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Los Angeles,Atlanta, and Detroit. iii The Boston Gun Project’s Operation Ceasefire G Contents Foreword ......................................................................................................iii Introduction....................................................................................................1 Part I. Developing and Implementing Operation Ceasefire by David M. Kennedy,Anthony A. Braga, and Anne M. Piehl ..........................5 Youth Homicide in Boston ......................................................................5 Applying Problem-Oriented Policing........................................................6 The Working Group and the State of the Art in Boston ..........................9 Proceedings of the Working Group ........................................................14
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