Summary Of Changing The Street Dynamic

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Using the APUS library i started doing research on criminal justice i recived a wide range of results by using the three Boolean operations i narrowed my search results down to just a few, by searching for criminal justice, America and gangs. By searching those three keywords i was able to find a research article covering gang violence in Chicago. The title of the article is Changing the Street Dynamic written by Andrew Papachristos from Yale University and David Kirk from Oxford University. Chicago is well know for its gang and gun violence but due to the violence reduction strategy theres been a 23% reduction in gun violence as well as 32% reduction in gunshot victims within the gang fractions that uses the call in experience. This

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