Irvin Waller’s Post

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime @UNODC published the latest Global Report on Homicides. Basically showing more of the same trends and responses. In social media it calls for the world to address the root causes of this violence to save lives. https://lnkd.in/ew9EHRy2 Yes long overdue to achieve SDG 16.1!   The new Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide. https://lnkd.in/eQpTjQme. It has  48 chapters sharing the best research and researchers on the causes and realities of juvenile homicides,   The Handbook ends with two chapters charting the course for the future. One of which is ours – “how to shift government policy from punishing to saving lives”. This chapter provides highlights from my book as well as an academic text for our 2 min video for policy makers https://lnkd.in/ekm6CquH   Getting to know the consensus on the science for proven violence prevention and the UN guidelines is a first step in saving (across the world and annually) 250 thousand lives, 15 million women protected from GBV and half a billion fewer children victims of violence. It will generate increases of 3-5% of GDP in middle income high violence countries. Here is careful analysis just for Mexico of where we are today … “The economic impact of crime and violence in Mexico for the year 2021 has been estimated at about $192 billion US dollars, which corresponds to 14.6% of their national GDP. By reducing violence 50% by 2030, we estimate savings of at least US$110 billion dollars.” https://lnkd.in/eePF7pNb It is time for smart action.  The US also announced efforts to reduce its outlier status for violence among affluent affdemocratic countries like the G7. https://lnkd.in/east8Gry Its focus on offices for prevention of violence is consistent with UN and other recommendations. Its actions include evidence based community violence intervention claimed to reduce violence by 60%. Angela Me Juma Assiago Arturo Cervantes Trejo Veronica Martinez S Claudio Stampalija Elizabeth Johnston Karen McLaughlin Audrey Monette Wendy Gillis Shannon Turner