Urban Gun Violence: Empty Lots, Green Spaces, and Other Ecologically Focused Interventions - Paperback

by Melvin Delgado (Author)

2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades. This book describes the positive impacts that urban green spaces such as repurposed vacant lots, parks, and gardens can have on reducing gun violence in marginalized urban communities.

Author Biography

Melvin Delgado, MSW, PhD, is professor of social work at Boston University. He is the former chair of Macro Practice. He has over forty years of practice, research, and scholarship focused on urban population groups, specifically within the Latinx community. Delgado's research has addressed a variety of social issues and needs, and he has published over thirty books on urban community practice topics. He is currently the editor of the Oxford University book series on social justice and youth community practice. He is the author of Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at a Crossroads, Urban Youth Trauma: Using Community Intervention to Overcome Gun Violence, and many other books.