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The RIT Center for Public Safety Initiatives publishes an extensive collection of working papers that provide valuable analysis and insights to support progress in criminal justice, law enforcement, and policy making.
- Analysis of RPD Data
- 2024 Homicide Statistics for 24 U.S. Cities
- Conceptual Summary of Placemaking
- CERV Case Study: Thomas
- Opioid Periodic Catalog List
- CERV Jordan: Lessons Learned
- CPSI Placemaking Project: Three-Month Example
- City of Rochester Opioid Action Plan: Northeast Quadrant Community Input Session September 2024
- 2023 Homicide Statistics for 24 U.S. Cities
- Federally Qualified Health Centers as Hubs for Victims of Violence
- CERV Wrap-Around Expenditures Analysis: May 2022 to May 2023
- CVI Effectiveness on Gun Violence
- Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: A Cursory Examination
- Trauma-Informed Care: Effectiveness on Recidivism
- Years of Potential Life Lost in Rochester, NY
- Race and Crime in a Rustbelt Suburb: Irondequoit, NY, Part III
- Evaluating Harm Indexes: Conceptual Framework, Benefits, and Limitations
- Community Violence Intervention and Telehealth
- Mental Health Services and CVI
- CERV Wrap-Around Expenditures Analysis: May 2023 to May 2024
- A Comprehensive Review of Case Clearance
- 2022 Homicide Statistics for 24 U.S. Cities
- Race and Crime in a Rustbelt Suburb: Irondequoit, NY
- Homicide Response Team Preliminary Analysis
- The Impact of Bail Reform: What the Data Shows
- Violence as a Public Health Issue
- Jordan Health Project: Comprehensive Services Hub for Victims of Violence
- Community Based Violence Reduction
- Social Media and Retaliatory Violence
- Social Media Intelligence Best Practices
- Challenges with Trauma-Informed Care
- Race and Crime in a Rustbelt Suburb: Irondequoit, NY | Part II.
- Nonfatal Shooting Initiative: Evaluation of Newburg and Utica Site
- TIPS Jones Square Park
- TIPS Scio Street
- CERV Wrap Around Funds, May 2022-23
- Rehabilitating Sex Offenders
- Gun Violence and Bail Reform
- Community Concern and Desire Thomas Ryan Park
- Community Concern and Desire Troup St Park
- Community Concern and Desire Jones Park
- 2021 Homicide Statistics for 24 U.S Cities
- Rochester Homicide Statistics for 2021
- Envisioning a Coordinated Services Hub for Victims of Violence
- Developing a Coordination Assessment Tool for a Retaliatory Violence Victims Services Hub
- Identifying Best Practices in Policing: An Overview of the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix
- Disparity Impact Statement: Victims of Retaliatory Violence
- 05 Firearm Violence in 2020 Series: Shooting Victims 5 Year Average (2 of 5)
- 04 Firearm Violence in 2020 Series: Shooting Victims Descriptions (1 of 5)
- 03 Presence of Core Investigative Variables in Incident Reports
- 02 Guide to Survive Being Addicted to Heroin
- Community Feedback on the Brighton Police Department
- 2021-01 Rochester Homicide Statistics 2020 (Updated)
- 2021-CLEAN-01 2020 Overdose Data in the Project CLEAN Target Area & accompanying 2021 Guide to Survive Being Addicted to Heroin
- Wrap Around Funds for Victims of Violence
- Community Engagement to Reduce Victimization
- Living with Warrants: Life under the Sword of Damocles 2019
- Rochester Homicide Statistics for 2018
- Community Concerns and Desires Analysis of Jones Park TIPS Initiatives May 2019
- Community Concerns and Desires Analysis of Arnett and Genesee Intersection TIPS Initiatives June 2019
- Community Concerns and Desires Analysis of Fernwood Park TIPS Initiatives July 2019
- Fatal and Nonfatal Shootings 2015-2018
- Gun-Involved Violence Elimination- An Overview
- Local Criminal Justice Data, Part II in a Series 2019
- Overdoses in Monroe County 2018
- Local Criminal Justice Data Part I: Police Staff and Population (2018)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Clinton Avenue TIPS Initiative (August 2018)
- An Analysis of a Police Program's Post-Training Tool (June 2018)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Flint Street TIPS Initiatives (June 2018)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jones Park TIPS Initiative (May 2018)
- 2018 Imagine RIT Survey Results: Perceptions of Gun Policies (May 2018)
- Periodic Catalog of Current and Emerging Responses to the Opiod Epidemic-Updated 07.19.18
- Defining an Overdose: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
- Shooting Case Clearance in Rochester, NY 2018-07
- Rochester Homicide Statistics for 2017
- Overview of Monroe County Jail population 10-2-2017 Roster and Census
- Overview of Annual Survey Data Across Three New York County Jails from 2010 – 2015
- Chasing the Data: Monroe County Opiod-Related Data
- Analysis of Rochester/Monroe County Gun Violence Reductions Efforts
- Swift, Certain, & Fair: Defense Attorneys' Views of the Program
- Lake Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing Before Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Genesee Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing After Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Goodman and Genesee Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing Before Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Clinton Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing After Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Community Views of Body Worn Cameras in the Rochester Police Department: An Executive Summary
- Clinton Officers' Perception of Body Worn Cameras in Policing Before Implementation: An Executive Summary
- Analysis of the 2017 Imagine RIT Attendees’ Perceptions of Opioids and the Opioid Epidemic
- Fluctuations in Rochester Homicides and Shootings from 2000 to 2016
- 2017 Imagine RIT Attendees' Perceptions of Opioids and the Opioid Epidemic
- An Overview of Procedural Justice
- Community Views on Criminal Justice: Methodology
- Community Organizations' Views of the Rochester Police Department: Part 1
- Community Organizations' Views of the Rochester Police Department: Part 2
- Rochester Police Department's Efforts to Strengthen Community Relations
- Five Criminal Justice Policy Choices in New York: Opinions From the Imagine RIT 2016 Survey
- Community Views on Criminal Justice: Quarter 4 Report
- Best Practices in Police-Community Relations in Two Cities with Large Populations
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Edgerton Park TIPS Compared to TIPS Average (August 2016)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Norton Village TIPS Compared to TIPS Average (July 2016)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Genesee & McCree Street TIPS Compared to TIPS Average (June 2016)
- Community Views on Criminal Justice - Third Quarter Report
- Five Criminal Justice Policy Choices in NY: Opinions from the Imagine RIT 2016 Survey
- Community Views on Criminal Justice - Second Quarter Report
- Comparison of Cities' Homicide Rates Over Time: 2016 Update
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Carter & Norton Street TIPS Initiative (August 2015)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Avenue D TIPS Initiative (July 2015)
- Swift, Certain, and Fair Focus Group Report
- Community Views on Criminal Justice: First Quarterly Report
- How Urban Violence is Addressed in the Media: Differences by Audience
- Local Anti-Violence Media Products and Design Decisions
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Grand Avenue TIPS Initiative (June 2015)
- Core Information about Community Violence
- School Suspension that Works (School suspension paper 3 of 3)
- Alternatives to Out-of-School Suspension (School suspension paper 2 of 3)
- Comparison of Cities' Homicide Rates Over Time
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Troup Street TIPS Initiative (May 2015)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Comparing Responses to Jefferson Avenue TIPS Survey over Time (2009-2014)
- Summary Considerations for Anti-Poverty Initiative Safe Neighborhoods Working Group
- Is School Suspension Beneficial (School suspension paper 1 of 3)
- Measuring Recidivism: Definitions, Errors, and Data Sources
- Correlates with Use of Force by Police
- Review of Select Rochester Violence Prevention Programs
- Rochester Firearm-Related Violence Overview 2004-2014
- Situational Factors of Lethality Literature Review
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Scio Street TIPS Initiative (May 2014)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Chamberlain Street TIPS Initiative (June 2014)
- Teen Empowerment Youth-Police Dialogues Final Evaluation Report
- Messaging and Methods for Behavioral Change Media Campaigns: What Makes Effective Anti-Violence Media?
- RYVP Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program Summary
- Probation Juvenile Justice Reform Final Evaluation (click here for Appendices to this report)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jay Street TIPS Initiative (August 2014)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jefferson Avenue TIPS Initiative (July 2014)
- Overview of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs
- Former Dealer Focus Group: Approaching and Engaging Drug Dealers
- Marijuana Moves: Opinions on a Policy in Flux (Imagine RIT 2014 survey)
- Five Things to Do and Ten Reasons Why We Fail at Reducing VIolence
- Conkey and Clifford Series (#1): Residents' View of the Neighborhood
- Conkey & Clifford Series (#2): Comparing Communities
- Conkey & Clifford Series (#3): Residents' Feelings and Interpretations of Open Air Marijuana Market
- "Ban the Box"
- Burglary Series: Motivation and Target Selection
- Burglary Series: Method in The Criminal Act
- Linking Research on Dispute Related Violence with Violence Reduction Strategies
- Analysis of Dispute Related Shootings
- Step by Step Final Report
- Firearm Injuries to Children
- Teen Empowerment Youth-Police Dialogue Interim Report
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Pulaski Park TIPS Initiative (May 2013)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jefferson Avenue TIPS Initiative (July 2013)
- Juvenile Justice Reform Evaluation
- Rochester Youth Violence Partnership Report
- Five site evaluation of SNUG: A violence reduction program based on Chicago Ceasefire
- The Power of Perception: Beliefs About Crime in Rochester, New York
- Preliminary Descriptive Analysis of the Rochester Shooting Database
- Evaluation of Judicial Process Commission's Women's Re-entry Project
- Calls for Service-Walmart, Gates, New York
- An Exploration of Gun Violence and Prevention: Toward the Development of an Inclusive Database (Paper 1 of 3)
- An Exploration of Gun Violence and Prevention: Toward the Development of an Inclusive Database: Databases as Prevention (Paper 2 of 3)
- Homicide in Rochester, NY 2012: Comparison of Rates for a Selection of United States and International Cities
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Aberdeen Park TIPS Initiative (July 2012)
- The Problem with Mary Jane: Street-Level Marijuana Sales and Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods
- Neighbors, Friends and Family: Women Arrested for Burglary in Rochester, NY 2009-2010
- Analysis of 2011 Rochester-City Pawn Shop Transactions: The Year in Review
- Pawn Shop Analyses: Legislation Series: A Model Collateral Loan Broker Code
- An Analysis of Pawn Shops: Legislation Series: Overview of Article 5 of the General Business Law
- Pawn Shop Analyses: Legislation Series: Where does pawn shop legislation exist in New York State?
- The Geography of Crime in Rochester-Patterns over time (2005-2011)
- Data Analysis of Rochester Burglar Arrests, 2009-2010
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Pulaski Park TIPS Initiative (July 2012)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jones Square TIPS Initiative (July 2012)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Conkey and Clifford TIPS Initiative (May 2012)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Frost Avenue TIPS Initiative (May 2012)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jones Square TIPS Initiative (May 2012)
- Media Campaigns & Crime Prevention : A Review of the Literature
- The Social and Legal Effects of Medical Marijuana: State Legislation and Rules
- IMPACT County Agency Website Analysis: Access to Pertinent Pistol Permit Information
- Sustainable Communities and Corrections: The Impact on Local Populations
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Ontario and Scio TIPS Initiative: THE RETURN (May 2011)
- Analysis of 2010 Rochester-City Pawn Shop Transactions
- Representation and Recruitment: A Three-Part Analysis of the Police Hiring Process Within New York State
- Restorative Justice in Schools: An examination of peace circles within Monroe High School
- UPDATED: Community Planning Models To Reduce Violence
- Police Hiring Data Collection & Analysis
- Law Enforcement Related Violence Reduction Strategies
- Calls for Service to Walmart
- Real Talk, Real Walk—A Model for the Nation: Youth/Police Strategize to Improve RPD’s Relationship with Youth
2010
- Preliminary Findings of the PATHS Curriculum
- Immigration/Migration and Crime in Rochester, NY
- Camp Good Days and Special Times Rochester City School District High School Leadership and Transitional Program: Participant Observation from a Volunteer’s Perspective
- Rochester Safe and Sound: Call-in Focus Group Report
- Violence Issues in Rochester, New York’s Latino Youth
- The Group 14621 Neighborhoods: A Public Safety Assessment and Recommendations
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Ontario and Scio TIPS Initiative (July 2010)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Lyell Avenue TIPS Initiative (May 2010)
- Community Planning Models to Reduce Violence
- Police Department Representation in New York State
- The Police Recruitment Process:Rochester, NY
- The Safer Monroe Area Reentry Team (SMART) Reentry Survey Report
2009
- Recommendations for Addressing the Problem of Illegal Transfer of Guns, including Straw Purchases in Monroe County, New York
- Courage Bowl Analysis
- Domestic Violence in Gay Communities
- Immigration and Crime Rates
- Immigration into the Greater Rochester Area
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: Indirect Effects of Community Violence on Health-related Issues
- Machismo Literature Review
- Summary of Research on Mass Murder
- Motor Vehicle Theft: The Offender, Environment, and Community
- Prisoner Reentry and Rochester’s Neighborhoods
- Re-entry Services Focus Group
- Rochester Motor Vehicle Break-Ins
- Street Corner Market Initiative
- Examining Rochester Community Youth-Police Relationships: Analysis of Teen Empowerment Police and Youth Surveys
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Hudson Avenue TIPS Initiative (November 2009)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Jefferson Avenue TIPS Initiative (April 2009)
- Community Concerns and Desires: Analysis of Dayton Street TIPS Initiative (February 2009)
2008
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: Medical Costs of Non-Fatal Shootings and Other Assaults in Rochester
- Copper Burglary and Copper Prices in Rochester, NY
- Community Concerns and Desires: Driving Park and Dewey (September 2008)
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: New York Health Care Reform Act (HCRA)
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: Trauma Centers Closing
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: Who is affected by the medical costs associated with gun-related injuries and deaths?
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: What are the medical costs associated with gun-related injuries and deaths?
- The Cost and Consequence of Community Violence: How many gun-related injuries and deaths are documented?
2007
2006
2002
- Rochester SACSI Research: Criminal Records in High Crime Neighborhoods
- Rochester SACSI Research: Analysis of Homicide Victim Toxicology Reports
- Rochester SACSI Research: The Link Between Drugs and Homicide
2001
- Rochester SACSI Research: Theory, Method and Intervention Under SACSI
- Rochester SACSI Research: Intervention Issues: Implications for the Implementation of Exit Interviews in The Monroe County Jail
- Rochester SACSI Research: Estimates of the Size of the Rochester Drug Market and their Implications for Addressing Homicide
- Rochester SACSI Research: Guns, Disputes and Drug Sales: Focus Groups at Monroe Correctional Facility
- Rochester SACSI Research: Genesee Neighborhood Focus Group
- Rochester SACSI Research: Maple Neighborhood Focus Group
- Rochester SACSI Research: Three Kinds of Murder
- Rochester SACSI Research: Clinton Neighborhood Focus Group
- Rochester SACSI Research: Drugs and Homicide 1992-2000
- Rochester SACSI Research: Follow-up to Grand Homicide Review, March 7, 2001