FINDING SOLUTIONS TO GUN VIOLENCE STOPPING the SPREAD of MURDER.

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    • Subject Terms:
      CHICAGO (Ill.); UNITED States
    • Subject Terms:
      SLUTKIN, Gary; WEBSTER, Daniel
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on gun violence in the United States and the organization Cure Violence in Chicago, Illinois. The author explains that Cure Violence is a program for ex-offenders that attempts to diffuse tensions before shootings happen, discusses the organization's founder University of Illinois-Chicago professor Gary Slutkin, and examines how the program impacted Daniel Webster, a former offender who now works for the John Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.