The Violence Project

The Chicago Tribune posted a very good story over the weekend looking at violence and its effects on children from a public health standpoint. The article is part of an ongoing series about chronic diseases and their effects on urban communities. The categorization of violence as a public health issue has been gaining steam with researchers over the years, similar to the belief that drug addiction should be treated as a disease instead of through immediate incarceration. One researcher who holds this belief is University of Illinois at Chicago professor Gary Slutkin, who also serves as executive director of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, at UIC’s school of public health, which oversees the group CeaseFire. The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention is a past winner of a four-year $1.2 million dollar grant from the MacArthur Foundation

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