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Articles on street violence

April 18, 2024

Cities with Black women police chiefs had less street violence during 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests

Kayla Stajkovic, University of California, Davis and Alex Stajkovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The type of life and professional experience a police chief has can influence how their departments react to protests, new research finds.

August 9, 2020

Dariusz Dziewanski, SOAS, University of London

A study shows that some Cape Town gangsters choose to stand alone, preferring their independence to taking orders from a gang boss.

July 15, 2020

Dariusz Dziewanski, SOAS, University of London

Even after becoming an ‘ex’, former gang members must still negotiate gang associations and activities in the communities they remain in.

Dariusz Dziewanski
Honorary research affiliate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
Kayla Stajkovic
Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, University of California, Davis
Alex Stajkovic
Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison