There is now. Carnegie Mellon University plans to assemble a team of 39 researchers from 24 research institutions in 11 states, Canada, and four European countries. Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. The consortium of scientists will look at the development of violence in individuals and try to discover how and why violent patterns develop in some individuals and not in others. Related issues will include drug abuse and drug markets, guns, gangs and socialization processes in families and communities.
Some trends are clear.
Two other federal agencies have committed support.