Policing in Boston

Key Readings

  1. Winship C, Berrien J. Lessons Learned from Boston's Police Community Collaboration. Federal Probation. 1999.
  2. Winship C. Boston Cops and Black Churches. Jenny Berrien. 1999. 
  3. Winship C, Patterson O. Boston's Police Solution The New York Times. 1999.
  4. Winship C, Berrien J. Should We Have Faith in the Churches? The Ten Point Coalition's Effect on Boston's Youth Violence. In: Harcourt B Guns, Crime and Punishment in America. New York University Press ; 2000.
  5. Winship C, Berrien J, McRoberts O. Religion and the Boston Miracle: The Effect of Black Ministry on Youth Violence In: Bane MJ, Coffin B, Thiemann R Who Will Provide?: The Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare. Westview Press ; 2000.
  6. Winship C. Maintaining Legitimacy: Church-Based Criticism as a Force for Change.In:Dionne EJ, Chen MH Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity? Brookings Institution ; 2001.
  7. Winship C. Reducing Youth Violence in Boston: Lessons from the 1990's. In: Ury W Must We Fight? Jossey Bass; 2002.
  8. Winship C, Berrien J.An Umbrella of Legitimacy: Boston's Police Department-Ten Point Coalition Collaboration. In: Katzmann G Securing Our Children's Future. Brookings Institute Press ; 2002.
  9. Winship C. The End of a Miracle? Crime, Faith, and Partnership in Boston in the 1990's. In: Smith DR Long March Ahead: The Public Influences of African American Churches, Vol. II. Duke University Press ; 2002.
  10. Winship C, Braga A. Partnership, Accountability, and Innovation: Clarifying Boston's Experience with Pulling Levers. In: Weisburd D, Braga A Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press ; 2006.
  11. Winship C, Braga A, Hureau D. Losing Faith? Police, Black Churches, and the Resurgence of Youth Violence in Boston. Ohio State Law Journal. 2008.
  12. Winship C, Braga A. What Can Cities Do to Prevent Serious Youth Violence?. Criminal Justice Matters 75: Perspectives from North America. 2009.
  13. Winship C, Krupnick J. Keeping Up the Front: How Young Black Men Avoid Street Violence in the Inner City. In: Patterson O, Fosse E Bringing Culture Back in: New Approaches to the Problems of Disadvantaged Black Youth. Harvard University Press ; 2015.
  14. Braga, Anthony A., Brandon Turchan, and Christopher Winship, "Partnership, accountability, and innovation: Clarifying Boston’s experience with focused deterrence." Police innovation: Contrasting perspectives (2019): 227-247.
  15. Rivers, Eugene and Christopher Winship, "Boston Police Are Not Minneapolis Police," Op-Ed, Boston Globe, July 13, 2020.
  16. Winship, Christopher, and Anthony A. Braga. “Reform Boston’s gang database, don’t dismantle it.” The Boston Globe, February 24, 2022.
  17. Winship, Christopher. "Accidental Discovery and the Pragmatist Theory of Action." In The New Pragmatist Sociology, edited by Neil Gross, Isaac Arial Reed, and Christopher Winship, 305-335. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
  18. Hureau, David M., Anthony A. Braga, Tracey Lloyd, Christopher Winship. “Streetwork at the crossroads: An evaluation of a street gang outreach intervention and holistic appraisal of the research evidence." Criminology, 61, no. 4 (2023), 758–794.

News

Walmart and ASA

Chris Winship posted "Walmart and the ASA" to the orgtheory blog. The piece is about the recent ASA Amicus Brief which supports the use of social framework analysis by social scientists who act as expert witnesses in, and whose conclusions can support...

Reimagining the City-University Connection

The symposium " Reimagining the City-University Connection," co-created by Chris Winship and Rob Sampson and jointly sponsored by the City of Boston, Harvard's Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS) was...

Recent Publications

Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (n.d.). Models of Social Change: Principles and Methods for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (n.d.). Models of Social Change: Principles and Methods for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (2023). The Anatomy of Cohort Analysis: Decomposing Comparative Cohort Careers.". Sociological Methodology, 53(2), 217-268.
Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (2023). The Anatomy of Cohort Analysis: Decomposing Comparative Cohort Careers.". Sociological Methodology, 53(2), 217-268.
Wehrwein, Z. R., Winship, C., Hitlin, S., Dromi, S. M., & Luft, A. (2023). What Sort of Social Inequality Matters for Democracy? Relations and Distributions. In Handbook of the Sociology of Morality (Vols. 2, pp. 341-355). Springer.
Wehrwein, Z. R., Winship, C., Hitlin, S., Dromi, S. M., & Luft, A. (2023). What Sort of Social Inequality Matters for Democracy? Relations and Distributions. In Handbook of the Sociology of Morality (Vols. 2, pp. 341-355). Springer.
Hureau, D. M., Braga, A. A., Lloyd, T., & Winship, C. (2023). Streetwork at the Crossroads: An Evaluation of a Street Gang Outreach Intervention and Holistic Appraisal of The Research Evidence. Criminology, 61(4), 758-794.
Hureau, D. M., Braga, A. A., Lloyd, T., & Winship, C. (2023). Streetwork at the Crossroads: An Evaluation of a Street Gang Outreach Intervention and Holistic Appraisal of The Research Evidence. Criminology, 61(4), 758-794.
Gowen, O., Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (2023). Cross-Group Differences in Age, Period, and Cohort Effects: A Bounding Approach to the Gender Wage Gap. Sociological Science, 10(26), 731-768.
Gowen, O., Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (2023). Cross-Group Differences in Age, Period, and Cohort Effects: A Bounding Approach to the Gender Wage Gap. Sociological Science, 10(26), 731-768.