Homicide rates have been increasing over the past year, in many communities across the U.S. This webinar series will highlight the best research on how to reduce violent crime, with the goal of informing policy and practice to make our communities safer.
Reducing Violence – Session I
July 19, 12:00 p.m. EDT
David Phillips, University of Notre Dame
Does emergency financial assistance reduce crime?
Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania
The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Lotteries
Priscillia Hunt, RAND Corporation
Predictions Put Into Practice: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Chicago’s Predictive Policing Pilot
Jennifer Doleac, Texas A&M University
The effects of DNA databases on the deterrence and detection of offenders
Kevin Schnepel, Simon Fraser University
Life after Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead
Reducing Violence – Session II
July 26, 12:00 p.m. EDT
Monica Deza, CUNY-Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
Access to Mental Healthcare Providers and Local Crime
Santiago Tobon, Universidad EAFIT
Gang rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
Deepak Premkumar, Public Policy Institute of California
Public Scrutiny and Police Effort: Evidence from Arrests and Crime After High-Profile Police Killings
Patrick Sharkey, Princeton University
The Effect of the New York State Gun Violence Reduction Program on Individual Parole Violations and Arrests
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Northeastern University
How Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes, and for Whom?
Reducing Violence – Session III
August 2, 12:00 p.m. EDT
Sara Heller, University of Michigan
Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago
John Macdonald, University of Pennsylvania
Changing Places: Remediating Infrastructure to Reduce Gun Violence
Morgan Williams Jr., Barnard College
Police Force Size and Civilian Race
Michael LaForest, Penn State University
Can Precision Policing Reduce Gun Violence? Evidence from “Gang Takedowns” in New York City
Chloe Gibbs, University of Notre Dame
Breaking the Cycle? Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood
Reducing Violence – Session IV
August 9, 12:00 p.m. EDT
Amanda Agan, Rutgers University
Misdemeanor Prosecution
Aaron Chalfin, University of Pennsylvania
Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City
Isaac Swensen, Montana State University
Substance-Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime
Sarah Komisarow, Duke University
Community monitoring and crime: Evidence from Chicago’s Safe Passage Program
Max Kapustin, Cornell University
Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago