Published Findings

Following is a varied listing of published findings by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Administration:

  1. Papachristos, Andrew V., Anthony A. Braga, and David M. Hureau “Social Networks and the Risk of Gunshot Injury” Journal of Urban Health (2012).
  2. Braga, Anthony A., Andrew V. Papachristos, and David M. Hureau “The Effects of Hot Spots Policing on Crime: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” Justice Quarterly (2012).
  3. Welsh, Brandon C., Anthony A. Braga, and Christopher J. Sullivan “Serious Youth Violence and Innovative Prevention: On the Emerging Link between Public Health and Criminology” Justice Quarterly (2012).
  4. Welsh, Brandon C., Anthony A. Braga, and Meghan E. Peel “Can ‘Disciplined Passion’ Overcome the Cynical View? An Empirical Inquiry of Evaluator Influence on Police Crime Prevention Program
    Outcomes    ” Journal of Experimental Criminology, 8 (4) (2012).
  5. Braga, Anthony A., Garen J. Wintemute, Glenn L. Pierce, Philip J. Cook, and Greg Ridgeway “Interpreting the Empirical Evidence on Illegal Gun Market Dynamics” Journal of Urban Health, 89 (5): 779 – 793 (2012).
  6. Braga, Anthony A. and David L. Weisburd “The Effects of Focused Deterrence Strategies on Crime: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Empirical Evidence” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 49 (3): 323 – 358 (2012).
  7. Cook, Philip J., Mallory O’Brien, Anthony A. Braga, and Jens Ludwig “Lessons from a Partially Controlled Field Trial” Journal of Experimental Criminology, 8 (3): 271 – 287 (2012).
  8. Braga, Anthony A. “Getting Deterrence Right? Evaluation Evidence and Complementary Crime Control Mechanisms” Criminology & Public Policy, 11 (2): 201 – 210 (2012).
  9. Braga, Anthony A., David M. Hureau, and Andrew V. Papachristos “An Ex-Post-Facto Evaluation Framework for Place-Based Police Interventions” Evaluation Review, 35 (6): 592 – 626 (2011).
  10. Braga, Anthony A. and Glenn L. Pierce “Reconsidering the Ballistic Imaging of Crime Bullets in Gun Law Enforcement Operations” Forensic Science Policy and Management, 2 (3): 105 – 117 (2011).
  11. Wintemute, Garen J. and Anthony A. Braga “Opportunities for State-Level Action to Reduce Firearm Violence: Proceeding from the Evidence” American Journal of Public Health, 101 (9): e1 – e3 (2011).
  12. Welsh, Brandon C., Meghan E. Peel, David P. Farrington, Henk Elffers, and Anthony A. Braga “Research Design Influence on Study Outcomes in Crime and Justice: A Partial Replication with Public Area Surveillance” Journal of Experimental Criminology, 7 (2): 183 – 198 (2011).
  13. Braga, Anthony A., David M. Hureau, and Andrew V. Papachristos “The Relevance of Micro Places to Citywide Robbery Trends: A Longitudinal Analysis of Robbery Incidents at Street Corners and Block Faces in Boston” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 48 (1): 7 – 32 (2011).
  14. Ridgeway, Greg, Anthony A. Braga, George E. Tita, and Glenn L. Pierce “Intervening in Gun Markets: An Experiment to Assess the Impact of Targeted Gun Law Messaging” Journal of Experimental Criminology, 7 (1): 103 – 109 (2011).
  15. Braga, Anthony A. (co-author) Policing Problem Places: Crime Hot Spots and Effective Prevention (2010)
  16. Wintemute, Garen J., Anthony A. Braga, and David M. Kennedy. "Private-Party Gun Sales, Regulation, and Public Safety." New England Journal of Medicine (June 30, 2010).
  17. Braga, Anthony A., Andrew V. Papachristos, and David M. Hureau. "The Concentration and Stability of Gun Violence at Micro Places in Boston, 1980–2008." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 26.1 (March, 2010): 33-53.
  18. Braga, Anthony A., and David Weisburd. "Editors’ Introduction: Empirical Evidence on the Relevance of Place in Criminology." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 26.1 (March 2010)
  19. Braga, Anthony A. “The Empirical Evidence for Hot Spots Policing” Police Studies, 17 (4): 233 – 248 (2010).
  20. Wintemute, Garen J., David Hemenway, Daniel Webster, Glenn L. Pierce, and Anthony A. Braga “Gun Shows and Gun Violence: Fatally Flawed Study Yields Misleading Results” American Journal of Public Health, 100 (10): 1856 – 1860 (2010).
  21. Braga, Anthony A. and Glenn L. Pierce. "Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets in Boston: The Effects of Operation Ceasefire on the Supply of New Handguns to Criminals." Criminology & Public Policy 4, no. 4 (November 2005).
  22. Braga, Anthony A. and Christopher Winship. "Creating an Effective Foundation to Prevent Youth Violence: Lessons Learned from Boston in the 1990s." Rappaport Institute Policy Brief PB-2005-5 (September 26, 2005).
  23. Piehl, Anne M., Suzanne J. Cooper, Anthony A. Braga, and David M. Kennedy. "Testing for Structural Breaks in the Evaluation of Programs" The Review of Economics and Statistics 85, no. 3 (August 2003).
  24. Braga, Anthony A., and David M. Kennedy. "Reducing Gang Violence in Boston" In Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research, eds. Winifred L. Reed and Scott H. Decker. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice (July 2002).
  25. Kennedy, David M. "A Tale of One City: Reflections on the Boston Gun Project." In Securing Our Children's Future: New Approaches to Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence" ed. Gary S. Katzmann. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press (2002)
  26. Braga, Anthony A., David M. Kennedy, Anne M. Piehl, and Elin J. Waring. Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire, National Institute of Justice Research Report (September 2001).
  27. Braga, Anthony A., David M. Kennedy, Elin J. Waring, and Anne M. Piehl. "Problem-Oriented Policing, Deterrence, and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Boston's Operation Ceasefire" Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 38, no. 3 download a draft of the paper (August 2001).
  28. Piehl, Anne M., David M. Kennedy, and Anthony A. Braga. "Problem Solving and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of the Boston Gun Project" American Law and Economics Review 2, no. 1 (Spring 2000).
  29. Braga, Anthony A., Anne M. Piehl, and David M. Kennedy. "Youth Homicide in Boston: An Assessment of Supplementary Homicide Report Data" Homicide Studies 3, no. 4 (November 1999).
  30. Kennedy, David. "Pulling Levers: Getting Deterrence Right" National Institute of Justice Journal (July 1998).
  31. Kennedy, David M., and Anthony A. Braga. "Homicide in Minneapolis: Research for Problem Solving" Homicide Studies 2, no. 3 (August 1998).
  32. Kennedy, David M. "Pulling Levers: Chronic Offenders, High-Crime Settings, and a Theory of Prevention" Valparaiso University Law Review 31, no. 2 (Spring 1997).
  33. Kennedy, David M., Anthony A. Braga, and Anne M. Piehl. "The (Un)Known Universe: Mapping Gangs and Gang Violence in Boston" In Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention, ed. David L. Weisburd and J. Thomas McEwen. New York: Criminal Justice Press, 1997.
  34. Kennedy, David M., Anne M. Piehl, and Anthony A. Braga. "Youth Violence in Boston: Gun Markets, Serious Youth Offenders, and a Use-Reduction Strategy" Law and Contemporary Problems 59, no. 1 (Winter 1996).

Additional Resources

  • Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at Harvard's Department of Sociology, has related resources on his website.