Larson, Peterson, and Manchi Publish research on changes in Homicide in the Twin Cities

Ryan Larson, assistant professor of criminology, Jillian Peterson, professor of criminology, and Jaycee Manchi, research and administrative assistant and Hamline Psychology graduate, published a new article - "The Changing Nature of Homicide in the Twin Cities: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of the Police Murder of George Floyd" -  that documents the quantitative and qualitative changes in Homicide in the Twin Cities in relation to the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Overall, the article documents the changes in quantity and qualitative composition of homicides locally, as well as the spatial concentration of these changes and the impact of police pullbacks in Minneapolis - highlighting how institutional ruptures can interact with chronic inequality to reshape lethal violence.