John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology - Gonzaga Main Campus, Washington, United States Title: Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology Area: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Sociology and Criminology Telework Availability: On-campus Position Employee Classification: Tenure...

The sociology & criminology dept at gonzaga is hiring! We're searching for somebody with a focus on criminology, law, or social control (broadly conceived).

We're a liberal arts teaching university. Very collegial department. Spread the word to interested folks. I'm happy to answer questions!

Philly news stations use harmful tactics to report on firearm violence, studies say Philadelphia stations often overreport mass shootings, shootings involving children and in wealthier areas with majority white residents.

PCGVR research in the news:

NYPD released Q1 2025 shooting data last week showing the fewest shootings through March that they've ever reported (data is available from NYPD back to 2006, but given murder figures it's probably the fewest shooting victims since the early 1960s or earlier).

The Science of Making Communities Less Violent Jens Ludwig questions everything you thought you knew about shootings.

www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

Vital City | Better Evidence, Better Policy A veteran criminal justice researcher argues that academics must reform themselves if they hope to have an impact on the real world.

@vitalcitynyc.bsky.social asked me what I thought about the role of research in public safety. So, I told em...
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/bet...

Similar to our report from almost 7 years ago. Important to say it's not just Trump & other performative "conservatives" who perpetuate biased images of "urban" gun violence. Liberals do it too when they compile numbers from just those cities big enough to report data.
johnjayrec.nyc/2018/05/24/d...

JOB! NYC Office of Neighborhood Safety: Assoc Director for Community Activation. Manage the $86 million portfolio of street outreach, hospital violence intervention, & wraparound programs, known here as the Crisis Management System (CMS). Pays up to $180K
cityjobs.nyc.gov/job/associat...

YouTube video by Research & Evaluation Center Webinar for Inquiry, a Sage Publications Journal

We describe the goals and purposes of the upcoming special issue on community-centered violence prevention. Papers due Jan 31.
youtu.be/nTEF0yxuiAQ

Bar graph showing local news sources cover youth crime disproportionately.

Wonder why the public is disproportionately concerned with youth crime? Maybe partly culture shock, but also because news media promote far more youth crime stories.
www.sentencingproject.org/reports/the-...

Good News. The submission deadline for this special issue has been extended to January 31.

Since many researchers are here now, I want to draw attention to a publishing opportunity. Special issue of the Sage journal, Inquiry, focused on violence prevention strategies that leverage community-level mechanisms. Deadline is Jan 11 & I can answer questions.
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

Major Crime Trends Differ in New York City and New York State - JohnJayREC.nyc — John Jay College's Research and Evaluation Center One-page analysis of crime data from counties in the State of New York.

Just posted a new one-pager analyzing differences in major crime trends between New York City and the rest of the State.
johnjayrec.nyc/2024/11/20/d...

To Battle the Bullet, Baltimore Goes After the Bottle The block in East Baltimore where Ashley Long was shot and killed in 2017 is desolate, even by the standards of the surrounding neighborhood. On a Saturday afternoon last spring, a cop in a parked pol...

Important article by Ted Alcorn.
www.thetrace.org/2024/11/balt...

Trump’s distant but ever-present impact on NYC public safety - R Street Institute What does a red electoral map mean for the men and women in blue? And local public safety in general? President-elect Donald Trump’s Nov. 5 victory could spell the return of the known police proponent...

The R Street Institute calls Trump a "known police proponent." Oh, ok, maybe ask the U.S. Capitol Police about that.
www.rstreet.org/commentary/t...

Berkeley Law’s Gun Violence Prevention Project forges a new strategic path Group leaders help students use international law to pursue justice and reform.

So great
www.law.berkeley.edu/article/stud...

Do Gun Regulations Equal Fewer Shootings? Lessons From New England Gun rights advocates point to New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont to argue you don’t need strong gun laws to keep violence in check. Here’s what the data reveals.

Excellent, accessible work from The Trace.
www.thetrace.org/2024/01/gun-...

Racial Inequality in Firearm Homicide Victimization—but not Other Types of US Violence - Cambridge... Research Question Is violent crime victimization among US minority groups higher than for White Americans in general, or is there a distinct failure of equal protection by race with respect to firearm...

My new paper using data from the CDC and BJS-NCVS shows that Black Americans suffer disproportionately from firearm homicide at rates that far exceed those of whites as well as Hispanics. Read here open acess: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The next presidential transition starts right now Though Election Day 2024 is a full year away, the next presidential transition must begin now — what transpired in 2020 proved coordination cannot be assumed.

Gotten a ton of feedback on this piece I wrote for The Hill today—it’s based on two years of research for a forthcoming book thehill.com/opinion/whit...

One city’s surprising tactic to reduce gun violence: solving more nonfatal shootings A Denver police unit started investigating all shootings like homicides. Now other cities are taking notice.

Seems obvious, right?
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Vital City | To Prevent Crime, Respect the Role of Self-Control An underappreciated way to reduce violence

Alex Piquero on the importance of helping people avoid justice involvement.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...

Sick of Cancel Culture? One Man Has a Surprising Solution. Greg Lukianoff is on a quest to heal a fractured nation and guard America’s liberties — if it’s not already too late.

Really important piece in Politico by a CUNY colleague.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Did Violent Crime Go Up or Down Last Year? Yes, It Did. While the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting data showed a drop in the nation’s violent crime rate in 2022, data from the National Crime Victimization Survey showed that violent crime victimization inc...

"The conflicting signals from our major statistical systems for measuring crime mean we cannot conclude with confidence whether violent crimes, other than homicide, went up or down in 2022."
counciloncj.org/did-violent-...

Fellowship — Coding it Forward

Great opportunity.
www.codingitforward.com/fellowship

NYC Taps Bank Forfeiture Funds for Criminal Justice Program Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is launching a $3 million program to connect recently arrested people with peers and social services.

Great way to use bank forfeiture funds.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Vital City | 20 Strategies for Reducing Crime in Cities Complements, not substitutes, to policing

John K. Roman:
"There are hundreds of solutions — market-based solutions, medical solutions, structural solutions and behavioral nudges — that can meaningfully reduce the risk of crime and violence without expanding the criminal justice system."
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/twe...

Measuring crime in place: Distinguishing between area victimisation and area offences Abstract. Crime data is essential to the running of a safe society. But are we measuring crime in the best way? Ian Brunton-Smith, Alexandru Cernat, David Buil-

The latest research note of our project recountingcrime.wordpress.com, published in Significance academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic..., where we highlight the importance of asking about the location of the crime in victimisation surveys.

Reducing Violence Without Police: A Review of Research Evidence - JohnJayREC.nyc — John Jay Colleg... Arnold Ventures asked the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice to review and summarize the research evidence for policies and programs that reduce community violence ...

Researchers look for ways to prevent and reduce violence, but the knowledge base is far from complete, especially as it relates to one important question: are there ways to prevent violence without relying on the police? The obvious answer is “yes.”
johnjayrec.nyc/2020/11/09/a...