Title: Bleeding Out Pdf The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
Author: Thomas Abt
Published Date: 2019-06-25
Page: 320
"Thomas Abt is a critical voice in our national discourse on crime and violence. His work bears the crucial intellectual virtues of exhaustive research, conscientious study, and meticulously drawn conclusions. Agree or disagree with him but by all means read him."―Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School"Contrary to conventional wisdom and popular culture, violence is not a permanent feature of urban life but a solvable problem, if you leave your ideology at the door and look at data on what works. Thomas Abt is one of the world's authorities on urban crime, and this fascinating and important book offers many surprises, much insight, and positive recommendations."―Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined"Bleeding Out is a readable guide for newcomers and a corrective for academics, establishing that urban violence truly is our greatest criminal justice problem. Thomas Abt knows what matters: neither the get-tough rhetoric from the right nor the denial on the left really address what ails urban poor people as they struggle with violent crime."―Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America"Bleeding Out is an illuminating and engaging book. Building on evidence involving anti-violence evaluations and dozens of face-to-face interviews, Thomas Abt's new paradigm for understanding and combatting urban violence is persuasive. This is required reading for all concerned citizens and policymakers."―William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University"From dangerous street corners to the corner offices of power, Thomas Abt focuses like a laser on the critical issues of crime and public safety. Policy makers, law enforcers, and community leaders should read his work if they're serious about making America safe-for all of us!"―Michael A. Nutter, mayor of Philadelphia, 2008-2016 Thomas Abt is a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he served as a policymaker in Barack Obama's Justice Department and worked for New York governor Andrew Cuomo, overseeing all criminal justice and homeland security agencies in the state. Abt lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a crime-fighter, Abt proposes a relentless focus on violence itself -- not drugs, gangs, or guns. Because violence is "sticky," clustering among small groups of people and places, it can be predicted and prevented using a series of smart-on-crime strategies that do not require new laws or big budgets. Bringing these strategies together, Abt offers a concrete, cost-effective plan to reduce homicides by over 50 percent in eight years, saving more than 12,000 lives nationally. Violence acts as a linchpin for urban poverty, so curbing such crime can unlock the untapped potential of our cities' most disadvantaged communities and help us to bridge the nation's larger economic and social divides.
Urgent yet hopeful, Bleeding Out offers practical solutions to the national emergency of urban violence -- and challenges readers to demand action.
An extremely important contribution to the field For the many who work on this issue with passion, a deep sense of mission and a determination to right historical wrongs, one of the biggest frustrations is why solutions that stare us all in the face don't get the kind of recognition (and funding support) that they deserve. Abt does the field justice in delivering a clear and compelling case, accessible to lay people, to rethink assumptions and transcend political lines. If we all don't get this right now, shame on us as a nation that betrays its very core values by walking away from an epidemic unraveling before our eyes. Every day. In real time.A solid exploration of one of the most important issues we face Abt was raised around policy research, worked as a public school teacher and prosecutor, and saw the development of federal crime policy from a high perch during a time when that perch hosted some truly fine people. His review of American violence and the available evidence base for reducing it provides a solid introduction and is easy to read, which means it is accessible beyond an academic audience. I'm not persuaded by everything. I think he is too eager to extrapolate from a research base which is still very much in a formative stage. But then, he would say that I'm too eager to believe that American society is ready and willing to confront the social inequities that sustain our violence problems. I know he would say that because we've had this conversation. After you read "Bleeding Out," see what kind of conversations you have.
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