Catchword: interrupter

Filed Under: English, Crime & Prisons, Jargon, New or Nonce

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: CeaseFire tries to deal with these quarrels on the front end. Hoddenbach’s job is to suss out smoldering disputes and to intervene before matters get out of hand. His job title is violence interrupter, a term that while not artful seems bluntly self-explanatory. Newspaper accounts usually refer to the organization as a gang-intervention program, and Hoddenbach and most of his colleagues are indeed former gang leaders. But CeaseFire doesn’t necessarily aim to get people out of gangs—nor interrupt the drug trade. It’s almost blindly focused on one thing: preventing shootings.

Article or Document Title:
“Blocking the Transmission of Violence” (URL)

Author:
Alex Kotlowitz

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
New York Times

Date of Publication:
May 4, 2008

This catchword has yet to be researched.