Reporters moderated a virtual discussion with a Parkland survivor, the executive director of March For Our Lives, and ...

Philadelphia's urban improvements correlate with reduced crime, suggesting environment plays a role in safety.

Philly gun violence interrupter Mazzie Casher has historic yet modern solutions to the problems of crime and poverty ...

Philadelphia's Health Department adopts a public health approach to gun violence, focusing on data analysis and community ...

Criminologists distinguish between instrumental violence (shooting a bank guard to facilitate a robbery) and expressive violence (expressing my rage or jealousy with fists or pistol). Almost all ...

A devastating blow happened for a West Philly organization working to save our streets. The group is working to move forward after the tragic loss of two of the organization’s members, both of them ...

While gun violence is down in Philadelphia, advocates say there are still too many children being caught in the crossfire.

District Attorney Larry Krasner lent his support to a lawsuit aiming to reverse $500 million in cuts to federal public safety programs, accusing the president of wanting more urban violence and crime.

Violence prevention programs, particularly community-based interventions, can significantly reduce homicides and shootings in ...

A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

By the 2024 election, for the first time in awhile, violent crime was a major political issue in the US. A Pew survey that year found that 58 percent of Americans believed crime should be a top ...

People blame gun violence on different things depending ... LUDWIG: Which is a huge reduction. MA: Strategy two - help change people's environments. And this can be illustrated by a study Jens ...