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Chicago community task force seeks to address trauma's role in violence
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32449
Subject(s) - task force , task (project management) , criminology , psychology , sociology , engineering , political science , public administration , systems engineering
In a year when gun‐related violence and fatalities in Chicago are running close to 50% ahead of 2019 numbers, one incident in particular has galvanized response on the city's West Side. The killing of a three‐year‐old child over Father's Day weekend has inspired the formation of a task force that will seek to shed light on the link between a community's trauma and acts of violence.