The pandemic did not interrupt LA’s violence interrupters

IF 0.7 Q4 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
Jiaoying Ren, Karina Santoso, D. Hyde, A. Bertozzi, P. Brantingham
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Purpose The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime has been highly variable. One possible source of variation runs indirectly through the impact that the pandemic had on groups tasked with preventing and responding to crime. Here, this paper aims to examine the impact of the pandemic on the activities undertaken by front-line workers in the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD). Design/methodology/approach The authors use both autoregressive integrated moving average modeling and a regression-based event study design to identify changes in GRYD Community Intervention Worker proactive peacemaking and violence interruption activities induced by the onset of the City of Los Angeles “safter-at-home” lockdown. Findings Analyses show that the proactive peacemaking and violence interruption activities either remained stable or increased with the onset of the lockdown. Originality/value While the City of Los Angeles exempted GRYD’s Community Intervention Workers from lockdown restrictions, there was no guarantee that proactive peacemaking and violence interruption activities would continue unchanged. The authors conclude that these vital functions were indeed resilient in the face of major disruptions to daily life presented by the pandemic. However, the causal connection between stability in Community Intervention Worker activities and gang-related crime remains to be evaluated.
疫情并没有打断洛杉矶的暴力打断者
目的COVID-19大流行对犯罪的影响变化很大。造成差异的一个可能原因是,这一流行病对负责预防和应对犯罪的群体产生了间接影响。在这里,本文旨在研究大流行对洛杉矶市长减少帮派和青年发展办公室(GRYD)一线工作人员开展的活动的影响。设计/方法/方法作者使用自回归综合移动平均模型和基于回归的事件研究设计来确定由洛杉矶市“安全在家”封锁引发的GRYD社区干预工作者主动调停和暴力中断活动的变化。调查结果分析表明,主动建立和平和制止暴力活动要么保持稳定,要么随着封锁的开始而增加。创意/价值虽然洛杉矶市免除了社区发展署社区干预工作人员的封锁限制,但不能保证主动建立和平和制止暴力的活动将继续不变。作者的结论是,面对大流行对日常生活造成的重大干扰,这些重要功能确实具有弹性。然而,社区干预工作者活动的稳定性与帮派相关犯罪之间的因果关系仍有待评估。
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