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Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America Hardcover - 2011

by David M. Kennedy


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Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had imagined: a solution.

"Don't Shoot "tells the story of Kennedy's long journey. Riding with beat cops, hanging with gang members, and stoop-sitting with grandmothers, Kennedy found that all parties misunderstood each other, caught in a spiral of racialized anger and distrust. He envisioned an approach in which everyone-gang members, cops, and community members-comes together in what is essentially a huge intervention. Offenders are told that the violence must stop, that even the cops want them to stay alive and out of prison, and that even their families support swift law enforcement if the violence continues. In city after city, the same miracle has followed: violence plummets, drug markets dry up, and the relationship between the police and the community is reset.

This is a landmark book, chronicling a paradigm shift in how we address one of America's most shameful social problems. A riveting, page-turning read, it combines the street verite of "The Wire," the social science of "Gang Leader for a Day," and the moral urgency and personal journey of "Fist Stick Knife Gun." But unlike anybody else, Kennedy shows that there could be an end in sight.

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  • Title Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
  • Author David M. Kennedy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 305
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, US
  • Date 2011-09
  • ISBN 9781608192649 / 1608192644
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.37 x 6.49 x 1.16 in (23.80 x 16.48 x 2.95 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Drug abuse - United States - Prevention, Violence - United States - Prevention
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011007900
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.690

About the author

David M. Kennedy has spent much of the last 25 years on the ground in the country's most dangerous neighborhoods, working with communities to find solutions to crime. The director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control and a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College, Kennedy has received two Webber Seavey awards from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, two Innovations in American Government awards from the Kennedy School of Government, and a Herman Goldstein Problem-Oriented Policing Award. His work has been used as a model or source for safety and drug intervention initiatives by the Clinton and Bush administrations, and by the Bureau of Justice. He also tours regularly to speak to groups that have included U.S. Congress, Scotland Yard, the National District Attorneys' Association, and the National Conference of Mayors. Kennedy lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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