Caterina G Roman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 259924 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Caterina G Roman |
| NOMBRES | Caterina G |
| APELLIDO | Roman |
| FIRMA | ROMAN C G |
| AFILIACIONES | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4506-4206 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Barriers to Victim and Witness Participation in the Criminal Justice System Following Severe Community Violence
This research note presents findings from a qualitative study exploring the barriers to victim and witness participation in the criminal justice system following acts of severe community violence. Drawing on data from stakeholder interviews and focus groups conducted in Philadelphia and North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad region, the study provides an analysis of how law enforcement professionals, victim advocates, and community-based service provide…
Spillover Effects of Drug Markets on Gun Violence Across a Network of Neighborhoods in Three Cities
Credible Messenger Perspectives on the Skills and Traits That Support Effective Outreach and Case Management in Community Violence Intervention
Credible messengers—individuals with lived experience of violence either as perpetrators or victims—are central to many community-based violence intervention (CVI) programs. Although the use of credible messengers as case managers in CVI programs is expanding, research is limited on what contributes to their effectiveness. This study examines the skills and traits credible messengers utilize to engage participants and support behavior change. Int…
Assessing the potential benefits of community-based violence reduction efforts on clearance rates
In 2013, two well-known place-based gun violence reduction strategies were implemented in different neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Separate evaluations showed each strategy was associated with significant reductions in fatal and nonfatal shootings compared to statistically-matched areas. The current study assessed whether the interventions had spillover benefits for shooting investigations. We hypothesized that the intervention-driv…
Collaborative Creation of a Logic Model and Performance Metrics for Evaluating a Violence Reduction Program
This paper describes a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to evaluation used by an academic-practitioner partnership to refine the logic model for a violent crime reduction program and develop associated performance measures. Through qualitative and quantitative data collection, including semi-structured interviews, engagement with program stakeholders (e.g., program leaders and staff, peer researchers, community residents), c…
The Cost of Crime
Valid and reliable measures of the harms to victims of crime are critical inputs to policy choices. Recent advances in cost-benefit methodology allow these measures to be directly estimated in causal models, but these models require individual- or event-level data. This article presents a new conceptual framework, known as HAVEN (Harms After Victimization: Experiences and Needs), for individual victim harm measurement. Guided by the conceptual fr…
Hot Spots of Gun Violence in the Era of Focused Deterrence
Gun and street group violence remains a serious problem in cities across the United States and the focused deterrence strategy has been a widely applied law enforcement intervention to reduce it. Although two meta-analytical studies concluded that the intervention had a significant effect on violence, questions remain about how violence changes across space and time during and after the intervention. This study applies novel geospatial analyses t…
Crime-related perceptions and walking for recreation inside and outside one's home neighborhood
Beyond the collective
An evaluator’s reflections and lessons learned about gang intervention strategies
Purpose This paper is designed to critically review and analyze the body of research on a popular gang reduction strategy, implemented widely in the United States and a number of other countries, to: (1) assess whether researchers designed their evaluations to align with the theorized causal mechanisms that bring about reductions in violence; and (2) discuss how evidence on gang programs is generated and consumed. That review and assessment is th…
Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions
Focused deterrence is a gang violence reduction strategy that relies on a unique mix of strong enforcement messages from law enforcement and judicial officials coupled with the promise of additional services. At the heart of the intervention is a coordinated effort to communicate the costs and consequences of gun violence to identified gang members during face-to-face meetings and additional community messaging. In Philadelphia, focused deterrenc…
Changes in Personal Social Networks across Individuals Leaving Their Street Gang
Despite a small but growing literature on gang disengagement and desistance, little is known about how social networks and changes in networks correspond to self-reported changes in street gang membership over time. The current study describes the personal or "ego" network composition of 228 street gang members in two east coast cities in the United States. The study highlights changes in personal network composition associated with changes in ga…
Exploring the Influence of Drug Trafficking Gangs on Overdose Deaths in the Largest Narcotics Market in the Eastern United States
Research has found that drug markets tend to cluster in space, potentially because of the profit that can be made when customers are drawn to areas with multiple suppliers. But few studies have examined how these clusters of drug markets-which have been termed "agglomeration economies"-may be related to accidental overdose deaths, and in particular, the spatial distribution of mortality from overdose. Focusing on a large neighborhood in Philadelp…
Longitudinal Associations among Child Support Debt, Employment, and Recidivism after Prison
Recently released prisoners in the United States are increasingly facing the burden of financial debt associated with correctional supervision, yet little research has pursued how—theoretically or empirically—the burden of debt might affect life after prison. To address this gap, we employ life course and strain perspectives and path analysis to examine the impact of child support debt on employment and recidivism, using longitudinal data from an…
Cure Violence
Scholars and practitioners alike in recent years have suggested that real and lasting progress in the fight against gun violence requires changing the social norms and attitudes that perpetuate violence and the use of guns. The Cure Violence model is a public health approach to gun violence reduction that seeks to change individual and community attitudes and norms about gun violence. It considers gun violence to be analogous to a communicable di…
Local gangs and residents’ perceptions of unsupervised teen groups
I Was Born in the Hood”
The study examines how perceptions of crime affect outdoor recreation and physical activity among Mexican-American youth of different ages and how Mexican-American youth negotiate constraints related to fear of crime. Theories of environmental stress and human territorial functioning theory are used to frame the findings of the study. In-depth interviews were conducted with 25 Mexican-American adolescents ages 11–18 residing in Chicago, Illinois.…
Evaluating systems change in a juvenile justice reform initiative
Fear of Walking Outdoors
GIS and Mapping at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center
The Urban Institute is an economic and social policy research organization; the Justice Policy Center (JPC) of the Urban Institute focuses its efforts on crime, justice, and community safety issues. Geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping play an important role in several major projects conducted by JPC, including program evaluations and comprehensive assessments of neighborhood-based issues such as crime and disorder. Below, we describe…
Assessing Intermediate Outcomes of a Faith-Based Residential Prisoner Reentry Program
Objective: This study examined intermediate outcomes of a faith-based prisoner reentry program by assessing how client spirituality related to client- and program-level characteristics, investigating differences between completers and terminators, and examining how religious preference, religiosity/spirituality, religious salience, and incarceration's impact on spirituality influenced program completion, satisfaction, and perceived progress. Meth…
Faith-based efforts to improve prisoner reentry
A Roof Is Not Enough
I Was Born in the Hood”
The study examines how perceptions of crime affect outdoor recreation and physical activity among Mexican-American youth of different ages and how Mexican-American youth negotiate constraints related to fear of crime. Theories of environmental stress and human territorial functioning theory are used to frame the findings of the study. In-depth interviews were conducted with 25 Mexican-American adolescents ages 11–18 residing in Chicago, Illinois.…
Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions
Focused deterrence is a gang violence reduction strategy that relies on a unique mix of strong enforcement messages from law enforcement and judicial officials coupled with the promise of additional services. At the heart of the intervention is a coordinated effort to communicate the costs and consequences of gun violence to identified gang members during face-to-face meetings and additional community messaging. In Philadelphia, focused deterrenc…
Changes in Personal Social Networks across Individuals Leaving Their Street Gang
Despite a small but growing literature on gang disengagement and desistance, little is known about how social networks and changes in networks correspond to self-reported changes in street gang membership over time. The current study describes the personal or "ego" network composition of 228 street gang members in two east coast cities in the United States. The study highlights changes in personal network composition associated with changes in ga…
Longitudinal Associations among Child Support Debt, Employment, and Recidivism after Prison
Recently released prisoners in the United States are increasingly facing the burden of financial debt associated with correctional supervision, yet little research has pursued how—theoretically or empirically—the burden of debt might affect life after prison. To address this gap, we employ life course and strain perspectives and path analysis to examine the impact of child support debt on employment and recidivism, using longitudinal data from an…
Faith-based efforts to improve prisoner reentry
Exploring the Influence of Drug Trafficking Gangs on Overdose Deaths in the Largest Narcotics Market in the Eastern United States
Research has found that drug markets tend to cluster in space, potentially because of the profit that can be made when customers are drawn to areas with multiple suppliers. But few studies have examined how these clusters of drug markets-which have been termed "agglomeration economies"-may be related to accidental overdose deaths, and in particular, the spatial distribution of mortality from overdose. Focusing on a large neighborhood in Philadelp…
An evaluator’s reflections and lessons learned about gang intervention strategies
Purpose This paper is designed to critically review and analyze the body of research on a popular gang reduction strategy, implemented widely in the United States and a number of other countries, to: (1) assess whether researchers designed their evaluations to align with the theorized causal mechanisms that bring about reductions in violence; and (2) discuss how evidence on gang programs is generated and consumed. That review and assessment is th…
A Roof Is Not Enough
Beyond the collective
Local gangs and residents’ perceptions of unsupervised teen groups
GIS and Mapping at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center
The Urban Institute is an economic and social policy research organization; the Justice Policy Center (JPC) of the Urban Institute focuses its efforts on crime, justice, and community safety issues. Geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping play an important role in several major projects conducted by JPC, including program evaluations and comprehensive assessments of neighborhood-based issues such as crime and disorder. Below, we describe…
Assessing Intermediate Outcomes of a Faith-Based Residential Prisoner Reentry Program
Objective: This study examined intermediate outcomes of a faith-based prisoner reentry program by assessing how client spirituality related to client- and program-level characteristics, investigating differences between completers and terminators, and examining how religious preference, religiosity/spirituality, religious salience, and incarceration's impact on spirituality influenced program completion, satisfaction, and perceived progress. Meth…
A Roof Is Not Enough
Faith-based efforts to improve prisoner reentry
GIS and Mapping at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center
The Urban Institute is an economic and social policy research organization; the Justice Policy Center (JPC) of the Urban Institute focuses its efforts on crime, justice, and community safety issues. Geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping play an important role in several major projects conducted by JPC, including program evaluations and comprehensive assessments of neighborhood-based issues such as crime and disorder. Below, we describe…
Assessing Intermediate Outcomes of a Faith-Based Residential Prisoner Reentry Program
Objective: This study examined intermediate outcomes of a faith-based prisoner reentry program by assessing how client spirituality related to client- and program-level characteristics, investigating differences between completers and terminators, and examining how religious preference, religiosity/spirituality, religious salience, and incarceration's impact on spirituality influenced program completion, satisfaction, and perceived progress. Meth…
Fear of Walking Outdoors
Evaluating systems change in a juvenile justice reform initiative
I Was Born in the Hood”
The study examines how perceptions of crime affect outdoor recreation and physical activity among Mexican-American youth of different ages and how Mexican-American youth negotiate constraints related to fear of crime. Theories of environmental stress and human territorial functioning theory are used to frame the findings of the study. In-depth interviews were conducted with 25 Mexican-American adolescents ages 11–18 residing in Chicago, Illinois.…
Cure Violence
Scholars and practitioners alike in recent years have suggested that real and lasting progress in the fight against gun violence requires changing the social norms and attitudes that perpetuate violence and the use of guns. The Cure Violence model is a public health approach to gun violence reduction that seeks to change individual and community attitudes and norms about gun violence. It considers gun violence to be analogous to a communicable di…
Local gangs and residents’ perceptions of unsupervised teen groups
Longitudinal Associations among Child Support Debt, Employment, and Recidivism after Prison
Recently released prisoners in the United States are increasingly facing the burden of financial debt associated with correctional supervision, yet little research has pursued how—theoretically or empirically—the burden of debt might affect life after prison. To address this gap, we employ life course and strain perspectives and path analysis to examine the impact of child support debt on employment and recidivism, using longitudinal data from an…
Exploring the Influence of Drug Trafficking Gangs on Overdose Deaths in the Largest Narcotics Market in the Eastern United States
Research has found that drug markets tend to cluster in space, potentially because of the profit that can be made when customers are drawn to areas with multiple suppliers. But few studies have examined how these clusters of drug markets-which have been termed "agglomeration economies"-may be related to accidental overdose deaths, and in particular, the spatial distribution of mortality from overdose. Focusing on a large neighborhood in Philadelp…
An evaluator’s reflections and lessons learned about gang intervention strategies
Purpose This paper is designed to critically review and analyze the body of research on a popular gang reduction strategy, implemented widely in the United States and a number of other countries, to: (1) assess whether researchers designed their evaluations to align with the theorized causal mechanisms that bring about reductions in violence; and (2) discuss how evidence on gang programs is generated and consumed. That review and assessment is th…
Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions
Focused deterrence is a gang violence reduction strategy that relies on a unique mix of strong enforcement messages from law enforcement and judicial officials coupled with the promise of additional services. At the heart of the intervention is a coordinated effort to communicate the costs and consequences of gun violence to identified gang members during face-to-face meetings and additional community messaging. In Philadelphia, focused deterrenc…
Changes in Personal Social Networks across Individuals Leaving Their Street Gang
Despite a small but growing literature on gang disengagement and desistance, little is known about how social networks and changes in networks correspond to self-reported changes in street gang membership over time. The current study describes the personal or "ego" network composition of 228 street gang members in two east coast cities in the United States. The study highlights changes in personal network composition associated with changes in ga…
The Cost of Crime
Valid and reliable measures of the harms to victims of crime are critical inputs to policy choices. Recent advances in cost-benefit methodology allow these measures to be directly estimated in causal models, but these models require individual- or event-level data. This article presents a new conceptual framework, known as HAVEN (Harms After Victimization: Experiences and Needs), for individual victim harm measurement. Guided by the conceptual fr…
Hot Spots of Gun Violence in the Era of Focused Deterrence
Gun and street group violence remains a serious problem in cities across the United States and the focused deterrence strategy has been a widely applied law enforcement intervention to reduce it. Although two meta-analytical studies concluded that the intervention had a significant effect on violence, questions remain about how violence changes across space and time during and after the intervention. This study applies novel geospatial analyses t…
Crime-related perceptions and walking for recreation inside and outside one's home neighborhood
Beyond the collective
Assessing the potential benefits of community-based violence reduction efforts on clearance rates
In 2013, two well-known place-based gun violence reduction strategies were implemented in different neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Separate evaluations showed each strategy was associated with significant reductions in fatal and nonfatal shootings compared to statistically-matched areas. The current study assessed whether the interventions had spillover benefits for shooting investigations. We hypothesized that the intervention-driv…
Collaborative Creation of a Logic Model and Performance Metrics for Evaluating a Violence Reduction Program
This paper describes a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to evaluation used by an academic-practitioner partnership to refine the logic model for a violent crime reduction program and develop associated performance measures. Through qualitative and quantitative data collection, including semi-structured interviews, engagement with program stakeholders (e.g., program leaders and staff, peer researchers, community residents), c…
Barriers to Victim and Witness Participation in the Criminal Justice System Following Severe Community Violence
This research note presents findings from a qualitative study exploring the barriers to victim and witness participation in the criminal justice system following acts of severe community violence. Drawing on data from stakeholder interviews and focus groups conducted in Philadelphia and North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad region, the study provides an analysis of how law enforcement professionals, victim advocates, and community-based service provide…
Spillover Effects of Drug Markets on Gun Violence Across a Network of Neighborhoods in Three Cities
Credible Messenger Perspectives on the Skills and Traits That Support Effective Outreach and Case Management in Community Violence Intervention
Credible messengers—individuals with lived experience of violence either as perpetrators or victims—are central to many community-based violence intervention (CVI) programs. Although the use of credible messengers as case managers in CVI programs is expanding, research is limited on what contributes to their effectiveness. This study examines the skills and traits credible messengers utilize to engage participants and support behavior change. Int…
Psychology (15 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (14 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Criminology (12 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 obras) · Poison control (8 obras) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 obras) · Economic Justice (7 obras)