Department of Justice awards $300,000 grant for sociology project

Andrew Papachristos, associate professor of sociology, and Christopher Wildeman, assistant professor of sociology, have received a U.S. Department of Justice grant for their research project, “Using Social Network Analysis for Crime Prevention and Evaluation.” Tracey Meares, the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, is a collaborator on the grant.

The award is tied to a violence prevention initiative funded by the state of Connecticut, private sources, and Yale, which begins this August in New Haven. The program will expand statewide in three years. The project, which received $300,000 in funding, combines network analysis, ethnographic observations, and other forms of crime analysis.