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National Institute of Justice Sarah V. Hart Director Lois Felson Mock Program Manager Anthony A. Braga is a senior research associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, John F . Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice. David M. Kennedy is a senior researcher in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of Harvard University’s John F . Kennedy School of Government and was the director of the Boston Gun Project. Anne Morrison Piehl is an associate professor of public policy in the John F . Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Elin J.Waring is an associate professor of sociology at Lehman College and the City University of New York Graduate School. This research was sponsored by grant award number 94–IJ–CX–0056 from the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Findings and conclusions of the research are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the U.S. Department of Justice. The National Institute of Justice is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime.
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