David M. Kennedy

Quick Facts

Full Name	David M. Kennedy
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Jul 22, 1941(1941-07-22)
Age	83
Country	United States
Birth City	Seattle
Horoscope	Cancer

David M. Kennedy Biography

David M. Kennedy is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on July 22, 1941 in Seattle, United States. David M. Kennedy (born 1958) is a professor, criminologist as well as an action researcher and author who specializes in the prevention of crime in inner city gangs, specifically to prevent violent incidents in street gangs. Kennedy created an Operation Ceasefire group violence intervention in Boston in the 1990s , and his High Point Model drug market intervention in High Point, North Carolina in

2003. Both have shown to reduce violence and reduce the presence of drug markets across all over the United States. Kennedy founded the National Network for Safe Communities in 2009 to assist cities that employ these and similar strategies.

Following having achieved initial results in Boston, Kennedy found stakeholders in Minneapolis eager to replicate his findings and he facilitated yet another success in the implementation of the in the process of developing strategy. Then, he helped Stockton, California, and Baltimore along with other cities. Baltimore was the next city. Baltimore intervention, which was initiated in 1998 and ended in 1998, was particularly challenging and brought to light the challenges of execution, specifically when it came to working with rival political officials and in sustaining the plan. After a brief decline in violence, the campaign was confronted with opposition from political leaders and finally was put on hold.

Published in 2008, Kennedy’s Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction is a theoretical work that provides an overview of deterrence approaches to preventing crime and forwards a new deterrence framework based on Kennedy’s work reducing gang violence and eliminating overt drug markets. On traditional deterrence models, Kennedy writes, “Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the exercise of state authority, works — it is hoped — to diminish offending and enhance public safety. And however well we think deterrence works, it clearly often does not work nearly as well as we would like – and often at very great cost.”

David M. Kennedy received the 2011 Hatfield Scholar Award for scholarship in the public interest.

In the late 1990s, as an integral part of the Boston Gun Project, Kennedy and his colleagues Anthony A. Braga and Anne M. Piehl from Harvard were working in Boston to develop innovative policing strategies that focused on solving problems to tackle the issue of violence in Boston. By working in conjunction with Boston Police Department gang unit, Kennedy and his colleagues realized that gangs were at root of the issue and that a small amount of active offenders were the primary cause of the city’s major crime rate, a notion which has informed his efforts for the last several years. Alongside Boston police and city officials, as well as religious and community leaders, and street outreach personnel, Kennedy and his colleagues created”the “call-in,” a face-to-face meeting with the gang’s members in a public setting. This collaboration of city officials “clearly communicates (1) a credible, moral message against violence; (2) a credible law enforcement message about the group consequences of further violence; and (3) a genuine offer of help for those who want it.” The immediate outcome from Operation Ceasefire was a 63 percent decrease in homicides among youth and a 30 percent decrease in the number of homicides that occurred throughout the city, which is known as”the “Boston Miracle.” The call-in as well as other forms of direct contact with offenders in active custody remain the mainstays of Group Violence Intervention and Kennedy’s general approach to reduce the violence and disorder that plagues communities. A key element of the call-in is that it gives the opportunity for what Kennedy refers to as”an “honorable exit” from violence and, in conjunction with the street code which promotes it as “a way to step back without losing face.”

David M. Kennedy Net Worth

David M. Kennedy is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David M. Kennedy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the 1980s Kennedy was an investigator within the Case Program of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When he visited the Nickerson Gardens neighborhood in Los Angeles on an assignment and becoming conscious of the ravages of crack epidemic as well as gang-related violence against communities of color across the United States. The experience prompted his lifetime commitment to tackling the scourge of gang violence.

David M. Kennedy graduated from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania in the year 1980. He graduated with an Associate of Arts and top honors in history and philosophy.

Kennedy currently directs a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, a position he has held since 2005. In 2009, Kennedy and John Jay College President Jeremy Travis founded the National Network for Safe Communities to link cities using Kennedy’s strategies to reduce violence, minimize arrest and incarceration, improve legitimacy, and strengthen relationships between law enforcement and distressed communities. Through the National Network for Safe Communities, Kennedy is currently assisting numerous cities to implement the Group Violence Intervention, including Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI; Baltimore, MD; New Orleans, LA; Baton Rouge, LA; South Bend, IN; Chattanooga, TN; and three cities in the state of Connecticut. Kennedy also remains a professor of criminal justice in the Criminal Justice Department of John Jay College.

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Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David M. Kennedy celebrates birthday on July 22 of every year.

Is David m Kennedy alive?

David Matthew Kennedy ( July 21, 1905 – May 1, 1996 ) was an American politician and businessman. He served as the 60th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and later as the 8th U.S. Ambassador to NATO, both under U.S. President Richard Nixon.

Who was David Kennedy and what did he accomplish?

He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1995–1996. He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999).

What did David m Kennedy do?

David M. Kennedy is a Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945, which discusses how the New Deal redressed income and job insecurity after the Depression.

What the New Deal did David M Kennedy?

In the first, Kennedy describes the Great Depression and New Deal. His overarching interpretation of the 1930s is that of security – rather than being an incoherent grab-bag of policies, the goal of the New Deal under FDR was to extend security to ALL Americans (not just economically, but socially and civically).

What killed David Kennedy?

David A. Kennedy
Died| April 25, 1984 (aged 28) Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
Cause of death| Drug overdose
Resting place| Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Parent(s)| Robert F. Kennedy Ethel Skakel