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California Bill Would Expand Trauma Care for Young Gun Violence Survivors
| Abené Clayton | The Guardian | June 25, 2026
Three in five young gun violence survivors do not receive mental health care, and California’s proposed Thrive Act would expand trauma recovery services for youth under 25 affected by shootings.
CDC Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence Dashboard
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | June 22, 2026
CDC’s dashboard maps deaths from overdose, homicide, suicide, and other injuries at local levels so communities can target prevention resources where they are most needed.
A Roadmap to Effective Gun Violence Policy
| Think Global Health | June 16, 2026
This article argues that gun violence prevention should be treated as a global public health challenge, with stronger data, prevention funding, and international health leadership.
Why Evidence-Based Forensic Science Reform Still Matters
| The Justice Gap | June 11, 2026
Professor Angela Gallop warns that forensic science systems need independence, regulation, and scientific safeguards to prevent miscarriages of justice.
Community Violence Intervention Framework for Safer Communities
| Milken Institute | June 3, 2026
This article outlines the core building blocks of community violence intervention, including credible messengers, sustainable funding, trauma support, and local coordination.
8 Defining Moments from the Innocence Project’s 2026 Gala
| Innocence Project | May 29, 2026
The Innocence Project highlights exoneree stories, forensic science reform, and the importance of trauma-informed support after wrongful conviction.
Overdose Prevention Research Priorities
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | May 2026
CDC identifies research priorities for overdose prevention, including public safety partnerships, rapid threat detection, stigma reduction, naloxone access, and community-based response.
50 Years of Evidence on Street Lighting and Crime
This policy primer reviews decades of research on lighting, public space, crime prevention, and how better illumination can support safer neighborhoods.
Three Things D.C.’s New Mayor and Council Need to Know About Community Safety
| Urban Institute | May 15, 2026
Urban Institute researchers recommend that Washington, D.C. strengthen community safety by improving violence interruption, public accountability, and investments beyond enforcement.
Social Determinants of Health and Fentanyl Overdose Mortality
| Kabi Raj Tiruwa, Abhisan Ghimire, Anuj Kumar Shah | arXiv | May 6, 2026
This study uses machine learning to identify county-level overdose risk, treatment deserts, and “silent risk” counties that may need earlier prevention before death rates rise.
CDC Public Health Strategies for Overdose Prevention
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | May 6, 2026
CDC describes public health strategies for overdose prevention, including naloxone access, medications for opioid use disorder, public safety partnerships, and services for justice-involved people.
CDC Overdose Prevention Journal Articles
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | May 4, 2026
CDC gathers recent overdose prevention research to help communities understand drug trends, prevention strategies, and evidence-based response systems.
Five Facts About DNA Testing and Wrongful Convictions in 2026
| Innocence Project | April 29, 2026
DNA testing remains a critical tool for proving innocence, identifying actual perpetrators, and correcting wrongful convictions caused by weak or misused evidence.
National Fentanyl Awareness Day Toolkit
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | April 23, 2026
CDC provides public education materials on fentanyl risks, naloxone, overdose recognition, and how communities can help prevent overdose deaths.
Can LLMs Understand the Impact of Trauma?
| Jessica H. Zhu et al. | arXiv | April 17, 2026
This study examines the limits of using AI to code interviews with firearm violence survivors, warning that automated analysis may erase important trauma narratives.
FY25 Rural Law Enforcement Violent Crime Reduction Initiative
| Bureau of Justice Assistance | April 15, 2026
This funding program supports rural jurisdictions seeking to prevent, respond to, and reduce violent crime through local public safety strategies.
Exonerees and Advocates Gather in the Wrongful Conviction Capital
| Innocence Project | April 11, 2026
The Innocence Network conference emphasizes forensic science reform, litigation strategies, policy change, and support for people returning home after wrongful conviction.
Global Gun Violence Research Requires a Multidisciplinary Approach
| Medical Xpress | April 2, 2026
Researchers argue that preventing gun violence requires public health, criminology, medicine, data science, and community knowledge working together.
Recruiting First Response Agencies for Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution
This study examines whether first response agencies can be recruited for national overdose education and naloxone distribution research.
Naloxone Dispensing Rate Maps
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | February 11, 2026
CDC maps naloxone dispensing rates to show where overdose reversal medicine is reaching communities and where access gaps remain.
A Community Approach to Saving Lives: Violence Reduction Councils
| Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions | February 17, 2026
Johns Hopkins describes violence reduction councils as collaborative systems that review shootings, coordinate responses, and build trust between public agencies and communities.
Rebuilding Forensic Science for Criminal Justice
| House of Lords Science and Technology Committee | February 17, 2026
This parliamentary report warns that forensic science systems need stronger independence, oversight, evidence retention, and scientific standards to protect justice.
Public Safety-Led Community-Oriented Overdose Prevention Efforts Toolkit
| National Overdose Prevention Network | February 7, 2026
The PS-COPE toolkit combines trauma-informed care, recovery systems, procedural justice, and community overdose prevention for BIPOC communities.
Community Violence Intervention: Measuring Risk and Protective Factors
| Jason Corburn et al. | PubMed | January 26, 2026
This study examines how CVI programs can measure risk and protective factors among participants to better prevent gun use and violence.
Sponsor’s Perspective: Building a Roadmap of Community Violence Intervention Research
| Sage Journals | January 23, 2026
This article describes community violence intervention as an evidence-informed public health approach that identifies people at highest risk and connects them to support.
2025 Community Violence Intervention Legislation Year in Review
| GIFFORDS Center for Violence Intervention | January 21, 2026
GIFFORDS reviews state legislation related to community violence intervention and shows how uneven public investment remains across the country.
CDC Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence Dashboard Launch
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | January 9, 2026
CDC’s local injury and violence data tool helps communities identify homicide, overdose, and suicide patterns and plan prevention efforts.
Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2025 Update
| Council on Criminal Justice | January 2026
This report tracks homicide, gun assault, aggravated assault, robbery, carjacking, and other crime trends across major U.S. cities.
What’s Driving the Drop in Homicide?
| Council on Criminal Justice | January 2026
The Council on Criminal Justice examines possible reasons for recent homicide declines, including policing, community programs, and post-pandemic stabilization.
Understanding and Reducing Physical Violence in Prisons
| Urban Institute | January 2026
This report discusses how public health, peer support, and prevention-oriented approaches may reduce violence inside correctional settings.
Variation in Naloxone and Buprenorphine Prescribing in LA County
| RAND Drug Policy Research Center | January 16, 2026
RAND examines naloxone and buprenorphine prescribing across Los Angeles County’s safety-net system to identify missed opportunities for overdose prevention.
Reflections on the First Decade of ERPO Laws
| Shannon Frattaroli et al. | PMC | 2026
This article reviews the first decade of Extreme Risk Protection Order laws and their role in preventing firearm injury, suicide, and violence.
Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Firearm Violence
| Heather Rochford et al. | PMC | 2026
This article reviews ERPOs as a firearm violence prevention tool and discusses how law, courts, and health systems can improve implementation.
Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Firearm and Nonfirearm Suicide
| Timothy T. Brown et al. | PMC | 2026
This study finds evidence that ERPO laws can reduce firearm suicide without clear evidence of substitution to nonfirearm methods.
Online Searches for Gun-Related Harm
| K. J. Mitchell et al. | PMC | 2026
This study explores how online search behavior may help researchers detect concern, risk, or public information needs related to firearm harm.
Gun-Related Beliefs as Predictors of Gun Policy Support
| J. A. Ward et al. | PMC | 2026
This article studies how beliefs about firearms shape public support for prevention policies, helping communicators understand barriers to reform.
Aggression and Attitudes Toward Firearm Violence Among High-Risk Youth
| C. Emezue et al. | PMC | 2026
This study examines youth aggression, firearm violence attitudes, and mental health factors that can inform prevention and intervention programs.
Community Violence Intervention in a Semi-Rural Community
| D. Ziminski | Taylor & Francis | 2026
This study addresses a gap in violence prevention research by examining how community violence intervention can work outside large urban settings.
A Community-Engaged Approach to Opioid Overdose Prevention
| D. Saini et al. | Springer | 2026
This study evaluates a community-based Train-the-Trainer naloxone education initiative designed to expand overdose response capacity.
Collaboration with Community Partners to Expand Naloxone Access
| T. Ingram et al. | PMC | 2026
This article describes how community partnerships can increase naloxone availability and strengthen local overdose prevention systems.
Changes in Community Health Worker Knowledge and Confidence in Naloxone Use
| M. Hooten et al. | PubMed | 2026
This study measures how training changes community health workers’ overdose knowledge, naloxone confidence, and readiness to respond.
Patient Insights to Improve Naloxone Access
| R. Boraz et al. | PubMed | 2026
This study explores patient perspectives on naloxone access and decision-making, helping design better overdose prevention outreach.
Perspectives of Opioid Users on Overdose Recognition and Naloxone
This article examines how people who use opioids recognize overdose risk, access naloxone, and experience barriers to prevention.
Widespread Take-Home Naloxone Averted Drug Deaths in British Columbia
This study estimates the impact of take-home naloxone and other interventions on drug death prevention in British Columbia.
Public Health and Criminal Justice to Reduce Gun Violence
| Cassandra K. Crifasi | JAMA Health Forum | 2026
This article argues that firearm violence prevention should combine public health and criminal justice strategies while minimizing unintended harms.
Overdose Prevention Vending Machines Research Project
| National Institutes of Health RePORTER | 2026
This NIH project studies overdose prevention vending machines that freely dispense naloxone and other supplies in communities with high overdose risk.
Virtual Reality Violence Prevention Program Research Project
| National Institutes of Health RePORTER | 2026
This NIH-funded project evaluates Elevate VR, a virtual reality violence prevention program designed to reduce firearm-related violence incidents.
Can Enhanced Street Lighting Improve Public Safety at Scale?
| Criminology & Public Policy | September 23, 2025
This study finds that enhanced street lighting was associated with reductions in outdoor nighttime street crime and nighttime gun violence.
RAND Study Finds Naloxone Sales Declined After Initial OTC Surge
| RAND Corporation | September 15, 2025
RAND researchers found that over-the-counter naloxone sales rose after approval but then dipped, raising questions about affordability, awareness, and distribution.
Empty Pockets and Empty Promises
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers | September 16, 2025
This report argues that federal restitution often fails both victims and defendants by creating lifelong debt without reliably repairing harm.
New PERF Report on Law Enforcement and Public Health Overdose Responses
| Police Executive Research Forum | September 20, 2025
PERF highlights the need for coordinated public safety and public health strategies to reduce overdose deaths and connect people to care.
Community Solutions to Prevent Gun Violence
| Center for Policing Equity | October 19, 2025
This report makes the case for community-based gun violence prevention, sustainable funding, and public safety systems that reduce reliance on enforcement alone.
Supporting Women in Crisis
| Council on Criminal Justice | October 2025
This brief reviews community-based crisis response models for women and recommends better data, research, and alternatives to unnecessary justice involvement.
Gun Violence Prevention Groups Disqualified from Grants Built Around Their Work
| Abené Clayton | The Guardian | October 26, 2025
This article reports that federal grant rule changes excluded many community organizations from violence prevention funding they were originally designed to receive.
Sustaining Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Programs
| C. C. Strange et al. | PMC | 2025
This study emphasizes the importance of structured policy planning, stable funding, and implementation support for long-term CVI work.
Does LED Street Lighting Reduce Crime?
| D. Mitre Becerril | SSRN | 2025
This study evaluates LED streetlight retrofits in Mesa, Arizona, and finds crime reductions driven mainly by theft and lower-level offenses.
The Impact of Public Lighting Improvement on Crimes and Crashes
| P. Cadena-Urzúa et al. | PMC | 2025
This study finds that improvements in public lighting may be associated with reductions in some crimes and traffic crashes.
Community Member Perspectives on Gun Violence Prevention
| S. B. Maness et al. | BMJ Public Health | 2025
This study gathers community input to guide local gun violence prevention strategies, public health interventions, and policy design.
Probabilistic Record Linkage of Two Gun Violence Data Sets
| Iris Horng et al. | arXiv | March 2, 2025
This paper develops a method to link Gun Violence Archive and NVDRS data, improving the evidence base for firearm violence prevention.
Evaluation of Pennsylvania Community Violence Intervention Programs
| Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency | 2025
This evaluation reviews early findings from Pennsylvania’s violence intervention and prevention investments and offers recommendations for stronger implementation.
Reducing Gun Violence in Brooklyn
This report studies gun violence patterns and prevention strategies in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, emphasizing community-led, government-led, and law enforcement efforts.
Evaluating What Works in Community Violence Intervention
| American Institutes for Research | 2025
AIR evaluates community violence intervention efforts in multiple cities to understand what reduces violence while protecting mental health and community trust.
Strategic Opportunities to Advance Forensic Science in the United States
| National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2025
NIST identifies opportunities to improve forensic science through stronger standards, validation, measurement, bias reduction, and scientific reliability.
How Often Are Fingerprints Repeated in the Population?
| Jackson Gold and Maria Cuellar | arXiv | December 17, 2024
This paper challenges assumptions about fingerprint uniqueness and recommends probabilistic models to improve fairness and reliability in fingerprint comparisons.
Interim Evaluation of Oakland’s School Violence Intervention Program
| Urban Institute | December 2024
This evaluation examines Oakland’s school-based violence prevention strategy, including restorative practices, violence interruption, and support for high-risk students.
Interim Evaluation of Oakland’s Group Violence Response Strategy
| Urban Institute | December 2024
This report studies Oakland’s group violence response strategy, including community organizations, outreach, and focused engagement with people at high risk of violence.
Do Cure Violence Programs Reduce Gun Violence?
| Rachel Avram, Eric J. Koepcke, Alaa Moussawi, Melissa Nuñez | arXiv | June 4, 2024
This study finds that Cure Violence programs in New York City were associated with reduced shootings and possible spillover benefits in nearby areas.
Community Violence Intervention
| Office of Justice Programs | March 22, 2024
OJP describes CVI as an evidence-informed approach that uses community-centered strategies to interrupt retaliation, address trauma, and reduce violence.
OJP FY2025 Budget Priorities for Public Safety
| Office of Justice Programs | March 12, 2024
OJP’s budget materials describe federal priorities for community violence intervention, gun violence prevention, justice reform, and public safety innovation.
Preventing Firearm Violence and Injury
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 2024
CDC outlines firearm injury prevention strategies, including safer storage, community programs, economic support, street outreach, and crisis intervention.
Fast Facts: Firearm Injury and Death
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 2024
CDC summarizes firearm injury and death data and explains why comprehensive, community-based prevention can reduce harm and inequities.
CDC Firearm Injury and Death Prevention Research Awards
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 2024
CDC describes funded research projects designed to improve firearm violence prevention programs, policies, and practices for high-risk populations.
CDC Youth Firearm Injury Prevention Research Awards
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 2024
CDC funds research on bullying policies, youth gun carrying, fatality prevention, and other factors shaping firearm risks among young people.
National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 2024
CDC’s youth violence prevention centers study community conditions, firearm-related hospital admissions, youth homicide, and prevention strategies.
Achieving Health Equity Around Overdoses
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 2024
CDC explains how overdose prevention must address structural, cultural, and economic factors that shape who gets treatment and who remains at risk.
Too Little, Too Late: A Dynamical Systems Model for Gun-Related Violence
| Feng Fu and Daniel N. Rockmore | arXiv | December 7, 2023
This mathematical model treats gun violence as a dynamic system and argues that graduated prevention responses may work better than late emergency actions.
Forensic Science and How Statistics Can Help It
| Xiangyu Xu and Giuseppe Vinci | arXiv | December 29, 2023
This paper explains how statistics, likelihood ratios, and graphical models can improve forensic evidence interpretation and reduce wrongful conviction risks.
Unintentional Firearm Injury Deaths Among Children and Adolescents
| CDC MMWR | December 15, 2023
CDC analyzes unintentional firearm deaths among children and adolescents and emphasizes safer firearm storage as a prevention strategy.
Shining a Light on Forensic Black-Box Studies
| Kori Khan and Alicia L. Carriquiry | arXiv | September 28, 2022
This paper critiques forensic black-box studies and warns that nonrepresentative samples and missing data can underestimate error rates.
The Road to Safety: Road Infrastructure and Crime in Rural India
| Ritika Jain and Shreya Biswas | arXiv | December 14, 2021
This study links rural road improvements, lighting, transit, employment, and reduced crime, showing how infrastructure can shape public safety.
Analyzing Streetlight and Demographic Data for Crime Prediction
| Fateha Khanam Bappee et al. | arXiv | June 13, 2020
This study uses streetlight infrastructure, demographics, and location data to improve crime prediction and support place-based safety planning.
Administration of Naloxone in a Home or Community Setting
| CADTH / NCBI Bookshelf | 2019
This review finds that community naloxone can be used safely and may reduce mortality when people nearby can respond quickly to overdose.
Quantifying the Weight of Fingerprint Evidence
| J. H. Hendricks, C. Neumann, C. P. Saunders | arXiv | March 27, 2018
This paper proposes a statistical approach to fingerprint evidence that moves away from categorical certainty and toward quantified evidentiary weight.
Forensic Bitemark Identification Has Weak Foundations
| Michael J. Saks et al. | PMC | 2016
This article critiques bitemark identification and explains why weak scientific foundations can contribute to wrongful convictions.
Crime Labs and Forensics Reform: Federal Initiatives
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers | n.d.
NACDL summarizes federal forensic science reform efforts and calls for stronger standards, oversight, and implementation of scientific recommendations.
Misapplication of Forensic Science
The Innocence Project explains how misused forensic disciplines such as bitemark analysis, hair comparison, arson evidence, and toolmark evidence can contribute to wrongful convictions.
Transforming Systems to Prevent Wrongful Convictions
This page describes policy reforms designed to prevent wrongful convictions, including better forensic science, eyewitness identification, discovery, and accountability.
The Issues Behind Wrongful Convictions
The Innocence Project summarizes common causes of wrongful conviction, including false confessions, official misconduct, misapplied forensics, and inadequate defense.
Junk Science and the Death Penalty
| Death Penalty Information Center | n.d.
This resource explains how unreliable or overstated forensic evidence has contributed to wrongful convictions and death row exonerations.
Reference Guide on Forensic Feature Comparison Evidence
This guide reviews scientific concerns in forensic feature comparison methods such as firearms, toolmarks, fingerprints, and other pattern evidence.
Community Violence Intervention Solutions
| Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions | n.d.
Johns Hopkins explains how credible messengers, outreach, mediation, and support services can interrupt cycles of neighborhood gun violence.
Overdose Prevention and Response Toolkit
SAMHSA’s toolkit explains overdose warning signs, naloxone and nalmefene, response steps, and prevention information for families, providers, and communities.
Community Opioid Overdose Reversal Medication Planning Toolkit
This toolkit helps communities plan overdose reversal medication distribution, public education, naloxone access, and anti-stigma strategies.
Opioid Overdose Reversal Medications
SAMHSA explains how opioid overdose reversal medications work and why naloxone access is central to overdose response.
Evidence-Based Resources About Opioid Overdose
SAMHSA gathers evidence-based overdose prevention resources focused on warning signs, naloxone, treatment, and recovery support.
Opioid Overdose Prevention and Reversal
SAMHSA provides guidance on overdose prevention, reversal medications, treatment access, and community response.
Overdose Data to Action Prevention Strategies
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | March 23, 2026
CDC describes OD2A prevention strategies built on public health, public safety, harm reduction, health systems, and people with lived experience.
CDC Overdose Prevention Data Resources
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | June 18, 2026
CDC provides data resources on naloxone, buprenorphine, opioids, and overdose patterns to help communities identify prevention gaps.
Preventing Opioid Overdose
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | June 9, 2025
CDC outlines prevention strategies including safer prescribing, reduced exposure, treatment for opioid use disorder, and community prevention systems.
CDC Overdose Prevention
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | n.d.
CDC’s overdose prevention hub gathers public health guidance, data, treatment resources, and prevention tools for communities.
Support for Naloxone and Other Opioid Overdose Reversal Medications
SAMHSA reports public support and monitoring needs for overdose reversal medications, helping policymakers understand naloxone access and acceptance.
RAND Substance Use Harm Reduction Research
RAND collects research on harm reduction, naloxone access, overdose prevention, fentanyl, and treatment policy.
RAND Opioids Research
RAND’s opioid research examines prevention, treatment, harm reduction, policy, and community factors shaping overdose outcomes.
Stopping the Flow of Fentanyl
| RAND Corporation | May 30, 2025
RAND discusses the synthetic opioid supply, enforcement challenges, and why overdose prevention requires coordinated public health and public safety strategies.
Assessing the Economic and Societal Value of Poison Centers
This report evaluates the public value of poison centers, including emergency response, public education, and prevention of poisoning and overdose harms.
FY25 Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative
| Bureau of Justice Assistance | September 17, 2025
This funding opportunity supports community-based and public safety strategies designed to reduce violent crime and improve police-community relations.
FY25 Youth Gang Prevention and Intervention Program
| Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | 2026
This program supports youth gang prevention and intervention strategies that reduce gang involvement, youth violence, and related public safety risks.
OJJDP Community Violence Resources
| Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | n.d.
OJJDP gathers funding, training, and technical assistance resources focused on youth violence, gang prevention, and community safety.
Our Impact on Injury and Violence Prevention
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | March 5, 2026
CDC describes its injury and violence prevention work, including research, programs, and practices aimed at stopping violence before it begins.
Youth Violence Research Priorities
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | April 2026
CDC identifies research questions about youth weapon carrying, bullying, violence prevention strategies, and protective factors.
Economics of Injury and Violence Prevention
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | March 16, 2026
CDC summarizes the economic burden of injuries and youth violence and highlights the value of evidence-based prevention.
Kernel Density Bandwidth Specification in Neighborhood Violence Research
| H. Y. Zewdie et al. | PubMed | 2025
This study examines methods for measuring nearby violence incidents, helping improve place-based evaluations of violence prevention.
Business and Service Provider Attitudes Toward Police Overdose Response
This study surveys business employees and service providers in overdose concentration areas to understand attitudes toward police-assisted overdose response.
Recruiting a National Sample of First Response Agencies
This article discusses recruitment of first response agencies for overdose education and naloxone distribution research.
New Orleans Street Light Initiative
New Orleans’ Lights On initiative repairs and upgrades street lighting in underserved neighborhoods to support public safety, infrastructure equity, and neighborhood confidence.
CSFR Installs Public Access Naloxone Harm Reduction Stations
Midland County partners installed harm reduction stations with naloxone, testing supplies, gun locks, and recovery information to reduce overdose deaths and other preventable harms.
Trump Administration Funding Cuts Hit California Gun Violence Prevention
| Abené Clayton | The Guardian | April 7, 2026
California violence prevention groups warn that federal funding cuts threaten street outreach, hospital-based violence intervention, and support for communities most affected by shootings.
D.C. Violence Prevention Funds Mismanagement Investigation
| The Washington Post | February 3, 2026
This investigation reports on oversight failures in D.C. violence prevention funding and shows why accountability matters for community safety programs.
DOJ Funding Update: A Deeper Look at the Cuts
| Council on Criminal Justice | 2025
This analysis explains how federal justice funding cuts affected community violence intervention, victim services, addiction prevention, and other safety programs.
Small Grants, Big Impact
| Council on Criminal Justice | 2025
This article explains how microgrants can support credible messengers, community-led safety work, and rapid responses to local violence risks.
DOJ Budget in Focus: Earmarks, Grants, and Congressional Priorities
| Council on Criminal Justice | 2026
This analysis reviews federal public safety funding, including the effects of cuts to community violence intervention grants.
DOJ Funding Cuts Impact More Than 550 Organizations
| Council on Criminal Justice | 2025
This article documents how grant terminations affected organizations working on violence prevention, addiction response, victim advocacy, and public safety.
Bleeding Out: Strategies to Reduce Violence
| Council on Criminal Justice | 2019
This resource discusses violence reduction strategies and emphasizes that legitimacy and public trust are essential for lasting public safety.
Trends in Homicide: What You Need to Know
| Council on Criminal Justice | 2023
This report reviews homicide trends and offers context for understanding short-term changes in violence and longer-term public safety patterns.
Report Finds Critical Gaps in D.C. Schools’ Gun Violence Prevention Plan
| The Washington Post | July 21, 2025
A D.C. inspector general report found inconsistent school safety practices, repair delays, and poor coordination with citywide gun violence prevention efforts.
Trump Administration Slashed Federal Funding for Gun Violence Prevention
Reuters reports that federal funding cuts affected community violence intervention programs, addiction prevention, and victim services across multiple cities.
Funding Cuts Leave At-Risk Youth Vulnerable to Gun Violence
This article examines how cuts to community violence prevention funding threaten programs serving youth in Jackson, Mississippi, and other high-risk communities.
Miscarriages of Justice More Likely Due to Forensic Science Crisis
A forensic science inquiry warns that weak evidence systems, missing evidence, and lack of independence can increase the risk of wrongful convictions.
White House Removes Advisory Defining Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue
| The Guardian | March 17, 2025
This article reports on the removal of a federal public health advisory on gun violence and the debate over treating shootings as a preventable health crisis.
The Effects of Improved Street Lighting in Reducing Crime
| European Crime Prevention Network | n.d.
This resource reviews evidence on improved street lighting, crime reporting, informal social control, community pride, and public perceptions of safety.
Lighting and Perceptions of Safety
| Crime Prevention Victoria | n.d.
This article explains that better lighting can influence perceived safety, but design, context, and community needs matter.
Regulating the Future of Forensics
| Forensics Europe Expo | n.d.
This conference session focuses on forensic regulation, accreditation, compliance, and strengthening confidence in forensic evidence.
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers | 2026
NACDL’s tracker monitors federal criminal cases and helps identify patterns relevant to fairness, transparency, and public trust in criminal justice.
Congressional Letters and Testimony on Criminal Justice Reform
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers | n.d.
NACDL gathers testimony and letters on digital evidence, forensic analysis, informant disclosures, and other safeguards against unreliable evidence.
Just Data: Advancing the Innocence Movement
This Innocence Project initiative promotes social science, data, and research partnerships to strengthen innocence work and prevent wrongful convictions.
Postconviction Reform and Forensic Science
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers | n.d.
NACDL’s postconviction resources include critiques of unreliable forensic science and reforms to make evidence more scientifically grounded.
Misdemeanor Waivers of Counsel
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers | n.d.
This report series examines why people waive counsel in misdemeanor cases and how lack of representation can affect justice outcomes and public safety.
The Trial Penalty
| National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers | n.d.
NACDL’s trial penalty work examines how pressure to plead guilty can undermine fairness, truth-finding, and confidence in criminal justice.
Analyzing the Accuracy of Bite Mark Identification
| Cleveland State University | 2025
This poster summarizes research on bite mark identification errors and wrongful convictions, illustrating why forensic methods need scientific validation.
CQ Researcher: Forensic Science
| CQ Researcher | July 18, 2025
This report reviews controversies in forensic science, including wrongful convictions, discredited methods, and the push for stronger scientific standards.
Forensic Evidence and Expert Testimony
This casebook gathers materials on forensic evidence, expert testimony, black-box studies, bitemark evidence, and courtroom reliability standards.
Crime Prevention Through Better Data, Evidence, and Accountability
| Bureau of Justice Assistance | n.d.
BJA’s performance measures help justice programs track outcomes, improve accountability, and connect public safety funding to measurable results.
Community Violence Prevention and Public Safety Investments in Oakland
Urban Institute’s Oakland evaluation project studies violence interruption, life coaching, community healing, gender-based violence response, and school-based prevention.
Oakland Measure Z Violence Prevention Evaluation Findings
| Urban Institute | November 2025
This brief summarizes findings from Oakland’s Measure Z violence prevention services, including community violence intervention and Department of Violence Prevention strategies.
Oakland Community Healing and Restoration Services Evaluation
| Urban Institute | November 2025
This report evaluates Oakland’s community healing and restoration work as part of a broader violence prevention ecosystem.
Oakland School Violence Intervention and Prevention Evaluation
| Urban Institute | November 2025
This evaluation reviews Oakland’s school-based violence intervention, restorative practices, conflict resolution, and supports for students exposed to violence.
Community-Based Violence Prevention and Public Trust
| Office of Justice Programs | March 12, 2024
OJP remarks describe federal justice priorities around preventing gun violence, increasing community trust, and advancing evidence-based justice reform.
Public Safety and Service-Based Overdose Prevention
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | March 23, 2026
CDC emphasizes that overdose prevention requires public health, harm reduction, public safety, healthcare systems, and people with lived experience working together.
National Data for Local Violence and Overdose Prevention
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | June 22, 2026
CDC’s local dashboard supports prevention planning by showing where injury, overdose, suicide, and homicide deaths are concentrated.
Gun Violence Prevention Through Community-Based Public Health
| Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions | n.d.
This resource frames gun violence prevention as public health work rooted in community trust, targeted outreach, and support for people at highest risk.
Evidence-Based Overdose Response for Communities
SAMHSA’s overdose toolkit gives communities practical steps for recognizing overdose, using reversal medications, reducing risk, and connecting people to treatment.
