Research

PSN features an explicit focus on strategic problem-solving around communities' gun violence issues. In fact, federal support for "Research Partners" has been a central component of the PSN effort. The Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro serves as the PSN Research Partner for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Middle District of North Carolina. The Research Partner's role is to assist with both the strategic planning and accountability elements of the initiative.

Cabarrus County Crime Trends (MS Word Document)

Cabarrus Pre-CIR Fall 2005 (MS PowerPoint)

Early Violent Death Among Delinquent Youth

The Influence of Deviant Peers (Adobe PDF Format)

Returning Home CABARRUS 0405 (Adobe PDF Format)

A Strategic Approach to Violence Reduction (MS PowerPoint)

By design, the research partners are meant to be included as an integral member of the violence reduction partnership. Their focus is to increase "...The capacity of PSN Task Forces to design data-driven strategies that produce measurable decreases in firearm-related violent crime and to improve the long-term ability of federal, state, and local partners to work together to understand, prosecute, and prevent firearm-related violent crime within their jurisdictions' (Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2002). In the Middle District of North Carolina, the Research Partner has conducted crime incident reviews, tracked violent crime trends, conducted process and outcome evaluations, and summarized best practices and relevant research studies.

Kristen DiLuca
Email: kldiluca@uncg.edu
Phone: (336) 217-9735

University of North Carolina at Greensboro