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Enhancing Community Safety through Interagency Collaboration: Lessons from Connecticut's Project Longevity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2021

Camila Gripp ,
Chandini Jha  and
Paige E. Vaughn
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Abstract

Group Violence Interventions (GVIs) combine a focused deterrence law enforcement approach with community mobilization and social services. The current study qualitatively examines Project Longevity, Connecticut's largest GVI initiative, to contribute to the limited literature on implementation of gun violence reduction strategies. Relying on interviews with 24 of Project Longevity law enforcement and non-law enforcement partners, we explore the establishment of interagency collaboration, which was viewed by study participants as the most pressing implementation challenge of Project Longevity. Our case study results offer important lessons to practitioners responsible for implementing GVI strategies.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 48 , Issue S4: Gun Violence in America: An Interdisciplinary Examination , Winter 2020 , pp. 47 - 54
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2020

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