1. Preventing youth violence

3. Chicago June 2, 2012

6. Committed Criminals

8. U.S. incarceration rate, 1925-2008 prisoners per 100,000 population

9. A different view of why people commit crime

14. BLUE

15. 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”

16. Our new Crime Lab research spokesperson EMBED VIDEO CLIP OF MAYOR EMANUEL TALKING ABOUT BAM RESULTS AND $2 MILLION EXPANSION HERE

19. 1.73 Which kids we work with

20. 1.73 35%

21. Let’s raise the bar

22. Stop, Look & Listen works w/ highest-risk kids too

23. 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...

24. Violence goes down (a lot) * p<.10, ** p<0.05, *** p<.01