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2024 End-of-Year Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends

2024 End-of-Year Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends

Dec 2024 Gun Violence

Gun violence remains one of the most pressing challenges in America but there are signs of progress.

Webinar: Untapped Levers for Reducing Gun Violence – The Impact of Behavioral Science Programs
Webinar

Webinar: Untapped Levers for Reducing Gun Violence – The Impact of Behavioral Science Programs

Oct 2024

Learn more about our study of Choose to Change® and other behavioral science interventions.

Summer Safety Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends
Presentation

Summer Safety Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends

May 2024

These data visualizations present our summer safety analysis on Chicago crime trends.

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Expanding Access to Addiction Treatment
Academic Paper

Expanding Access to Addiction Treatment

Dec 2024

This paper explores practical strategies to expand access to addiction treatment for persons living with opioid use disorders (OUDs).

Agent-Based Model of Combined Community- and Jail-Based Take-Home Naloxone Distribution
Academic Paper

Agent-Based Model of Combined Community- and Jail-Based Take-Home Naloxone Distribution

Dec 2024

This paper outlines the impact and cost-effectiveness of naloxone distribution, particularly for people facing criminal justice involvement.

2024 End-of-Year Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends
Presentation

2024 End-of-Year Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends

Dec 2024

Gun violence remains one of the most pressing challenges in America but there are signs of progress.

Policy Experiment Stations to Accelerate State and Local Government Innovation
Policy Brief

Policy Experiment Stations to Accelerate State and Local Government Innovation

Nov 2024

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) published this memo about strategies for building capacity and accelerating state and local government innovation.

Reflections from UChicago Crime Lab’s Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy
Video

Reflections from UChicago Crime Lab’s Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy

Nov 2024

Watch a video of reflections from graduations of the Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy’s second cohort.

Choose to Change® (C2C®) Program Guide
Resource Guide

Choose to Change® (C2C®) Program Guide

Oct 2024

This program guide is intended for community-based organizations working to fill gaps in services and reach an underserved population of youth impacted by violence and trauma.

Building safer communities: Behavioral science innovations in youth violence prevention
Policy Brief

Building safer communities: Behavioral science innovations in youth violence prevention

Oct 2024

This policy brief highlights results from a large-scale randomized controlled trial that evaluated the impact of Choose to Change® (C2C®) on participants’ criminal justice involvement.

Unpacking the Impacts of a Youth Behavioral Health Intervention: Experimental Evidence from Chicago
Academic Paper

Unpacking the Impacts of a Youth Behavioral Health Intervention: Experimental Evidence from Chicago

Oct 2024

This working paper details results from a study of Choose to Change® (C2C®), a trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy and intensive mentoring program developed by nonprofits Brightpoint and Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP).

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Criminal Offending Examining the Efficacy and Potential Impact
Policy Brief

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Criminal Offending Examining the Efficacy and Potential Impact

Oct 2024

In this issue brief, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research covers several Crime Lab evaluations of CBT interventions.

Webinar: Untapped Levers for Reducing Gun Violence – The Impact of Behavioral Science Programs
Webinar

Webinar: Untapped Levers for Reducing Gun Violence – The Impact of Behavioral Science Programs

Oct 2024

Learn more about our study of Choose to Change® and other behavioral science interventions.

Community Safety Leadership Academies: Project Overview
Project Overview

Community Safety Leadership Academies: Project Overview

Sep 2024

Learn more about our Community Safety Leadership Academies.

Community Safety Leadership Academies: Brief
Project Overview

Community Safety Leadership Academies: Brief

Sep 2024

Learn more about our Community Safety Leadership Academies.

Policing Leadership Academy (PLA) Overview
Overview

Policing Leadership Academy (PLA) Overview

Sep 2024

Read an overview of the Policing Leadership Academy (PLA), a first of-its-kind program launched in May 2023 to train America’s policing leaders working in some of our most violent neighborhoods.

CVI Leadership Academy: Application Information Session
Presentation

CVI Leadership Academy: Application Information Session

Aug 2024

View the presentation and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from the CVI Leadership Academy information session held on August 14, 2024.

Reimagining Justice at Justice: Investing in Communities as Co-Producers of Public Safety
Report

Reimagining Justice at Justice: Investing in Communities as Co-Producers of Public Safety

Jul 2024

Research by the University of Chicago Crime Lab on community investment as a strategy for promoting public safety is highlighted in this paper published by The Square One Project.

Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums
Academic Paper

Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums

May 2024

This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial of a youth outreach forums program run in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center (JTDC) by the Northern Illinois Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force.