Homicide Research Working Group: An Interdisciplinary and International Organization

AGENDA FOR THE HRWG 1997 INTENSIVE WORKSHOP

Theme: The Policy/Practice/Research Connection

June 8

6:30-9:00 PM
Reception and Discussion Led by David Kennedy-- What Works to Reduce Lethal Violence?

June 9

7:00-8:00 AM
Breakfast in the Dining Room

8:00-8:15 AM
Hello

8:15-10:50 AM
Theme session: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice, Youth Violence Prevention

This session, features four collaborations between theory/ research and policy/practice in youth violence. What unique perspectives & skills are required of researchers and practitioners in bridging the gaps and building linkages, what are the barriers to establishing these linkages, and how can they be surmounted? Meeting participants will have a chance to "kick the tires" of four collaborations, asking them how they did it, the problems and how they overcame them, the results of their interventions, and what steps can or should be taken to disseminate these prevention models and integrate them into public policy.

Organized and moderated by: Lois Mock (NIJ), Linda Dahlberg (CDC), and Bob Flewelling (RTI)

Collaborators:

Rick Rosenfeld and Troy Miles Americorp from a high risk youth mentoring program in St. Louis

David Kennedy and Det Tito Whittington from the Boston collaborative youth violence prevention project

Don Faggiani and Colleen McLaughlin who report on a brief intervention model being applied to youthful violent injury patients

Peter Greenwood will wear two hats in his discussion of the California Wellness

Foundation Recorder: John Jarvis

10:50-11:00 AM
Break

11:00-12:30 PM
Violent Offenders-Motives and History

Moderator: James Trudeau

Presenters:

Garen Wintemute - Prior Criminal History and Other Determinants Of Later Criminal Activity among Authorized Purchasers of Handguns

Everett Lee - Infanticides Related to Characteristics of Parents

Henry Brownstein - "Prior Experiences with Drugs and Violence of Young People under Custody for Homicide" Preliminary findings from two studies involving interviews with boys and girls under custody for homicide.

12:30-1:45 PM
Lunch & Business Session

Journal Report: Dwayne Smith
The HRWG Website: Kaye Marz
Bylaw and Incorporation: Chris Rasche
Speaker: Father Delaney

1:45-2:50 PM
The Rewarding and Painful Process of Collaboration to Prevent Domestic Violence

Presenters:

Jackie Campbell, Carolyn Rebecca Block, Deborah Spungen and Linda Langford

This workshop is focused on the advantages, disadvantages, problems, and opportunities of collaborative intimate violence research. It brings together four projects in which collaboration between research and practitioners, academics and policy makers, public health and public safety agencies, and/or community-level and federal or state entities is a central component.

2:50-3:00 PM
Break

3:00-5:00 PM
Demo/Poster/Literature Session

Session Coordinator: Joel Garner

Presenters:

James Drozdz - IACP Initiatives to Reduce Violence
Kaye Marz - How to use the National Archive of CJ Data / The HRWG Web Site
Victoria Brewer, Kelly R. Damphousse and Derek J. Paulsen - A Comparison of US and Canadian Findings on Uxoricide Risk for Women and Children Sired by Previous Partners
Orest Fedorowicz, Statistics Canada - The Canadian Homicide Data Set
Pamela Lattimore - National Institute of Justice-Update, Homicide Change in Eight Cities
Jiafang Chen - Weapons Used in Homicide 1920-1991: Changing Patterns by Ethnicity, Sex, Age and Region
Richard Block - Firearms Ownership and Firearms Victimization: A Comparison of Nine Western Industrialized Societies in the International Crime Victim Survey-1996

6:00-9:00 PM
Dinner and Round Table Discussions

Dinner Roundtables: At dinner on Monday. For those of you who were asking for more person-to-person discussion time, this is a chance to hold a nitty-gritty focused discussion with a few (5-10) other interested people over dinner. It is not a presentation session. (But one person can get the discussion ball rolling.)

Topics:

Linda Langford - "Issues in homicide case definition from a study of domestic homicide"
Dwayne Smith - Editorial Board Meeting Homicide Studies
Any Other Ideas?

June 10

7:30-8:30 AM
Breakfast in the Dining Room

8:30-10:15 AM
The Brady Act: Evaluation Considerations and Where to Go from Here

This session will explore the efficacy of the Brady Act in reducing gun crime (especially violent gun crime), methodological concerns with such an evaluation, legal versus illegal methods of acquiring firearms that may confound findings, and recom mendations to better assess the impact of Brady and improve its enforcement potential.

Moderator: Steven Roth, New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
Presenters:
Joseph Vince, Chief of Firearms Division, ATF - "Provisions and Intent of the Brady Act"
Wallace Nelson, Head of Regulatory Bureau, ATF - "How Brady has Performed -- indicators of "success"
(Joe and Wally will collaboratively present in tandem)
Daniel Webster, John Hopkins University - "Methodological Considerations in Evaluating the Effects of the Brady Act"
Dean Rojek, University of Georgia - "Illegal Methods of Acquiring Firearms and their Impact on the Effectiveness of Brady"
Gary Kleck, Florida State University: "Methods to Improve Evaluation of Brady, with Positive Potential for Law Enforcement"

10:00-10:15 AM
Break

10:15-10:45 AM
Linking Data Sources to Understand Firearms Related Deaths

Moderator: Kim Vogt

Barbara Pearce &Ralph Tanz, Children's Memorial Hospital - "Issues in Linking Confidential Pediatric Firearm-Related Deaths
Julie Lovely &Damir Kukec, Department of Justice Canada - "Firearms Deaths: A Prospective Study in Selected Provinces

10:45-12:15 PM
Comparing and Coordinating Information on Lethal Violence: Epidemiology and Lethal Violence

Organizer, moderator: Allan Abrahamse

A few short presentations about different techniques followed by a vigorous discussion that might lead, some day, to a partial consensus on what we ought to expect from somebody who claims to know what the future holds. It might also inspire some of us to agree to try a couple of common approaches to datasets with the idea of a session in 1998 contrasting the results.

Al Blumstein and Jacqueline Cohen, John Engberg &George Tita - "Spatial Dependence of Retaliatory Homicides

Chris Rasche - Open discussion session on the "Tipping Point." Is this a real epidemiological phenomena and could it apply to homicide? The application of public health ideas to Criminal Justice

Roland Chilton - "Race, Class and Homicide: A Proposal of Work for Other HRWG Members"

Alan Abrahamse - Relating Demographic Trends to Lethal Violence

12:15- 1:15 PM
Lunch

1:30-4:45 PM
Tour of the ATF Training Center

5:30-6:45 PM
Reception at Joel Garner's House

7:00-9:30 PM
Dinner--Speaker: Andrew Sonner

June 11

7:30-8:30 AM
Breakfast

8:30-9:45 AM
What Works? Using Firearm Tracing Information in Violence Reduction Intervention Projects

Moderator: Bill Edison

John Firman - A Work in Progress: The IACP Gun Trafficking Interdiction Project
Paul Blackman - "The Limitations on BATF Tracing Data for Policymaking and Criminological Research"
Joe Vince &Gerry Nunziato, Anthony Braga and David Kennedy - "Information Foundations for Violence Reduction Projects: Firearm Tracing Data"

9:45-10:00 AM
Break

10-12:00 PM
Gangs, Drugs and Youth Violence

Moderator: Ron Farrell

Kelly Damphouse, Victoria Brewer, and Cary Adkinson - Gangs, Race/Ethnicity and Houston Homicide in the 1990's
Kathleen Heide - Today's Music and Youth Violence
George Tita, Al Blumstein &Jackie Cohen - The Gang-Drug-Gun Nexus Evidence from Pittsburgh
Buddy Howell, Cheryl Maxson, &David Curry - A Comparison of Responses to the National Youth Gang Survey and UCR Data

12:00-1:30 PM
Lunch and Business Session

1:30-2:30 PM
Area Research on Homicide

Moderator: Derral Cheatwood

Vance McLaughlin - "Homicide in Savannah: 1896-1903; 1986-1993" Citizen versus citizen homicide, homicides done by the government, research methods for analyzing homicides from the last century
Ann Lee - Marital Status &Homicide
Peter Grabosky - Homicide in Australia

3:00-6:00 PM
Tour of Antietam Battle Field (Vans will be provided)

7:15 PM
Dinner at the South Mountain Inn (At your Expense)

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