Why violence clusters in cities - and how to reduce it

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Want to help make Durham a safer place? We're working with Durham County Government on a bold new Violence Reduction Plan and step one is listening to the experts and forming a data-driven strategy.

Join us for a conversation with national violence reduction expert Thomas Abt as we kick-off a series of Strategy and Learning Sessions

 4pm Wednesday, Dec. 17 at the Main Durham Co. Library

Thomas Abt is an American author, crime researcher, and former government official specializing in evidence-informed approaches to reducing crime in urban areas. His book, Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets, was published in June 2019 by Basic Books. Abt favors an approach to crime prevention that emphasizes eliminating violence directly, rather than focusing on its other associations, which include such things as poverty, gangs and drugs, and his 2019 book substantiates this claim with an extensive review of the data. Source: Wikepedia