VIOLENCE IN URBAN AMERICA -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Assumptions and Objectives -- 3 Tactics -- Objective 1: Promote a more effective criminal justice response to violence. -- Improving Emergency Response -- Overcoming Fear of Cooperation with Criminal Justice Authorities -- Expanding Intermediate Sanctions and Postincarceration Aftercare -- Making Traditional Responses More Effective -- Extending Court Hours -- Increasing the Number of Police Officers -- Broadening Access to Juvenile Records -- Creating Boot Camps -- Targeting Gang Leaders -- Initiating Community Meetings -- Finding and Fixing Violence Hot Spots -- Reclaiming Public Spaces -- Adopting Community Policing -- OBJECTIVE 3: REDUCE VIOLENCE HAZARDS IN COMMUNITIES. -- Controlling Firearms -- Reducing Violent Gun Uses -- Reallocating Guns Away from Juveniles -- Reducing the Number of Guns -- Reducing the Lethality of Guns -- Reducing Alcohol Abuse -- Interrupting Illegal Drug Markets -- Reducing Other Violence Hazards -- Expanding Secure Emergency Shelters for the Homeless -- Scattering Public and Assisted Housing -- Building Safety and Livability in the Design of Public, Commercial, and Residential Buildings -- Finding and Fixing Open Spaces that Present Hazards for Violence -- Setting Up a Demonstration Alternative Dispute Resolution Center Such -- Creating an Interagency Violent Death Review Board -- Teaching First Aid to Youths -- Objective 4: Strengthen supports for children and their families. -- Creating Family Resource Centers -- Reorienting Child Welfare Services -- Creating Full-Service Schools -- Developing Other Community Services -- Objective 5: Reduce violence in the home, which is both a problem initself and contributes to violen ... -- Objective 6: Rebuild human and financial capital in communities weakened by violence.

Increasing Human Capital -- Linking Individuals to Opportunities -- Increasing Financial Capital in Minority Neighborhoods -- Objective 7: Promote a prosocial, less violent culture. -- Using the "Bully Pulpit" -- Increasing Sensitivity to Negative Stereotypes -- Enlisting Celebrities in Antiviolence Campaigns -- Publicizing Successes -- 4 Organizational Issues -- THE COST OF CONTROLLING VIOLENCE -- LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION -- NEW INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS -- Providing Nonfinancial Assistance to Local Governments -- Providing Flexible Financial Assistance to Local Governments -- Waiving Categorical Requirements -- Establishing City Desks -- Integrating Services -- Borrowing from Other Delivery Systems -- Bringing About Solutions -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A Violence in Cornet: A Case Study -- PART A: THE PROBLEM -- A. THE MURDER OF ANITA WOODS -- B. A WEEKEND OF VIOLENCE AND THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE -- Six Slain in Weekend Murders Victims Include 3-Year-Old -- C. THE VIEW FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT -- 1. The Office of Data Analysis -- 2. Investigating the Murder of Anita Woods -- D. THE VIEW FROM THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT -- E. A COMMUNITY MEETING IN POPLAR HILLS -- APPENDIX B Summaries of Conclusions Recent Studies -- UNDERSTANDING AND PREVENTING VIOLENCE -- UNDERSTANDING CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT -- LOSING GENERATIONS: ADOLESCENTS IN HIGH-RISK SETTINGS -- INNER-CITY LIFE: CONTRIBUTIONS TO VIOLENCE -- REFERENCES.