Preventing youth violence

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Preventing youth violence
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ChicagoJune 2, 2012
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Committed Criminals
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Committed Criminals
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U.S. incarceration rate, 1925-2008 prisoners per
100,000 population
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A different view of why people commit crime
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Stop, Look Listen in CPS 2009-10

• Becoming a Man (Youth Guidance World Sport
  Chicago)
• 27 week, 1 hour / week, 10-15 students / group
• Average participant attends just 13 group
  sessions
• Example The Fist

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Our new Crime Lab research spokesperson
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Which kids we work with
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Which kids we work with

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Lets raise the bar
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Stop, Look Listen works w/ highest-risk kids
too
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10 minutes

• Most violent offenders not bad kids just made
  bad decision?
• Non-poor kids make bad decisions, too but have
  safety nets
• Detention staff leader If I let you kids redo
  just 10 minutes of your lives, none of you would
  be here
• Program logic (rather than specifics) matter?
  Scalability
• Potentially huge returns every dollar spent on
  Stop, Look Listen generates 2 to 30 in
  benefits to society
• We may have (tragically) misdiagnosed this whole
  problem...

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Violence goes down (a lot)
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