REPORTS

“Addressing Community Violence in St. Louis County: Existing Gaps and Best Practices to Support a Countywide Approach to Violence Intervention.” (November 2022). Giffords Center for Violence Intervention.

“Supporting the Frontline Through Community Healing: Advancing Science on Violence Intervention Outreach and Trauma Exposure: A Case Study of Kansas City, Missouri.” (September 2022). Kansas City LISC Office.

“On the Front Lines: Elevating the Voices of Violence Intervention Workers.” (October 2021). GIFFORDS Center for Violence Intervention.

ESSAYS AND OP-EDS

Jordan Costa. March 2023. “A Call to Protect Peacemakers.” GIFFORDS Center for Violence Intervention.

Jordan Costa. March 2022. “Effective anti-violence efforts are trauma-informed.” Youth Today, and Juvenile Justice Exchange.

Jordan Costa. March 2020. “Gun Violence Work Could Use Billions of Dollars in Victim Assistance Funds.” Youth Today, and Juvenile Justice Exchange.

RESEARCH

Nazsa S. Baker, Cortney VanHook, Devon Ziminski, Jordan Costa, Michael Mitchell, & Nakita N. Lovelady. (May 2024).“I am a survivor!”: Violently injured Black men’s perceptions of labeling after a violent firearm injury." Journal of Urban Health.

Ashley Appleby, Colleen Berryessa, and Jordan Costa. (November 2019). “Legal and extralegal factors in juvenile judge decisionmaking and potential effects on punishment decisions.”

BOOK CHAPTERS

Michael Ostermann, Jordan Costa, and Bernadette Hohl. 2020. “Back-end Sentencing and Opting Out of the Parole Process: Two Areas for Further Study in Corrections and Reentry Research.” DCS Handbook: Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward: Building on the Record (ed. by Beth Huebner, Pam Lattimore, and Faye Taxman). 

Jordan Costa and Anthony Azari. 2021. “The Impact of Policy and Law Enforcement Strategies on Reducing Gun Violence in America.” In We Are Losing the War on Gun Violence in America, Why? (ed. Stephanie Bonne). New York: Springer Publishing. 

Jordan Costa. 2019. “Jim Crow Laws.” Race, Crime, and Justice: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.