Group Violence Reduction Strategy

Research Findings


Since the National Network’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy was first launched as “Operation Ceasefire” in Boston in 1996, a substantial body of research in support of the strategy has been assembled.  A careful pre/post evaluation of the first pilot of the approach, Operation Ceasefire in Boston, found that youth violence citywide fell by two-thirds in the two years after the strategy was implemented. See Essential Readings and Full Index for details of the research on the strategy to date.

 
Source: Braga, A A., Kennedy, D.M., Piehl, A.M., & Waring, E.J. (2001, September). Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project’s Operation Ceasefire. National Institute of Justice Research Report