This evaluation suggests “the current GVI implementation in Philadelphia has been associated with significant reductions in group member involved firearm violence. The continued effectiveness of the implementation will likely depend on a range of factors, including necessary adjustments to evolving group activity and firearm violence.”
This report was commissioned before the Crime and Justice Policy Lab was formed at UPenn and the underlying work has not been reviewed for accuracy by Crime and Justice Policy Lab’s directors—the lab directors did not have input into the methods, process, writing, or editing of the evaluation. However, our lab thought it was valuable to publish this work because it is the only evaluation that has been done of Philadelphia’s latest GVI effort. The Crime and Justice Policy Lab has produced a policy brief to explain and contextualize the results, available HERE.
An Evaluation of the Group Violence Intervention (GVI) in Philadelphia
Ruth Moyer (Feb 2023)
